Powers v. Schubert’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 1964
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kelley v. Ward · Oldham v. Medearis · Heisch v. Adams · 45 Tex. Civ. App. 30 - Standford v. Finks · American National Bank v. Fidelity & Deposit Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It appears to us that appellant's theory is based upon a misconception of opinions which do not discuss the question whether the right to sue existed as soon as the wrongful act was committed, but whether the bar of the statute of limitations would be postponed by reason of fraudulent concealment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shapleigh v. Huff
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.