Thomason v. Burch’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1996
8 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 Logan v. Thomason · Ragsdale v. Ragsdale · Cathey v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. · Stinnett v. Paramount-Famous Lasky Corp. of New York · McKibban v. Scott
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever conflict there may be in the authorities in other states, and in Texas prior to McKibban v. Scott, 131 Tex. 182 , 114 S.W.2d 213 , 115 A.L.R. 1421 , it is now settled that Article 3716 is applicable in an action to probate a will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holt v. Drake
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.