Morrow v. Flores’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2012
10 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 Morgan v. Mulhall · Insurors Indemnity & Ins. Co. v. Associated Indemnity Corp. · Koons v. Rook · Ligon v. Green · Bauguss v. Bauguss
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is not necessary, to constitute an assault and battery, that there be a specific intention of striking or otherwise injuring plaintiff. If defendant unlawfully aims at one person and hits another, [under the doctrine of transferred intent] he is guilty of assault and battery on the person hit, the injury being the direct, natural, and probable consequence of the wrongful act. So, if one of two persons fighting unintentionally strikes a third, the person so striking is liable in an action by the third person for an assault and battery.’ ” (Emphasis added.) Morrow v. Flores, 225 S.W.2d 621, 624 (Tex. Civ. App. 1949, reh. denied January 6, 1950) (quoting 6 C.J.S., Assault and Battery § 10[2], p. 804).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baska v. Scherzer
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.