Nalls v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1995
6 federal appellate · 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 Red River National Bank v. Ferguson · Anna & Graham v. Stuve · Kavanaugh v. Brown · Tolbert v. Standard Acc. Ins. 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A surety makes a direct promise to perform the principal’s obligation if he fails to perform it as he agreed to do; an indemnitor obligates himself to reimburse the indemnitee for loss suffered or to save him harmless from liability, but he never agrees directly to perform the obligation indemnified. Suretyship requires three parties, while indemnity requires only two.” Tolbert v. Standard Accident Insurance Co., 148 Tex. 235 , 223 S.W.2d 617 , 620.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““This is a restrictive clause, — a purely negative provision. It does not purport to confer upon the wife any express authority. Such as it does confer is only by implication. It implies that the wife, when joined by her husband in the making of such contract, may become the joint maker of a note with another, or a surety upon another’s bond or obligation. It is to be construed as if so written. But the common sense of the language is that it is not the husband’s note, bond or obligation that is referred to or intended. It is the note, bond or obligation of 'another,’ in whose execution with the wife he is merely required to join.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chesser v. Murphy“With the adoption of the common law as the rule of decision in this state, in 1840, our married women were rendered unable to bind themselves by contract. Kavanaugh v. Brown, 1 Tex. 481. And although by statute we retained the Spanish law rule that the wife can own property, our adoption of the common law meant that she can contract with respect to it or otherwise only for a purpose pointed out by law and only in such manner as our statutes may permit. Graham et al. v. Struwe (Struve) et al., 76 Tex. 533, 13 S.W. 381; Speer's Law of Marital Rights, 3rd Ed. Sec. 167, p. 226.”
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.