Gowan v. Reimers’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably Womack v. Berry (1956), Swinney v. Winters (1975)
47 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 Edwards v. Gifford · Mitchell v. Bass · Wilson v. Ammann & Jordan · Dakan v. Humphreys · May v. Consolidated Underwriters
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The function of a point of error is to call attention to some act of the court complained of as constituting error. The burden is upon the appellant to show that the record supports his contention made, and to indicate with certainty that part of the record supporting it. May v. Consolidated Underwriters, Tex.Civ.App., 170 S.W.2d 295 , writ refused, w. m. We cannot take cognizance of any purported act of the court not disclosed by the record. George v. Senter, Tex.Civ.App., 194 S.W.2d 290 , writ refused, n. r. e. It is the responsibility of an appellant to make a written application to the clerk for the transcript directing what it shall contain, and from this application or direction transcript is compiled and furnished to the appellant. Rule 376, T.R.C.P. It is the settled rule in this state that the appellate court will consider only matters disclosed by the record furnished. The burden is upon the appellant to so furnish to the reviewing court a record which affirmatively discloses the errors complained of, and that they are of such a nature as to injure him. 3 Tex.Jur. 424, sec. 302.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Motions of this character have perplexed the courts ever since early Statehood. They are said to be received with careful scrutiny and are held to address themselves largely to the discretion of the trial court under the facts of each particular case and that if the court has overruled the application it will not be reviewed in the absence of a showing of abuse of that discretion. Mitchell v. Bass, 26 Tex. 372 . * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.