Miller v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2002
6 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 Howard Hume, Administrators, Etc. v. Windom · Starr v. Ferguson · Starr v. Ferguson · Standard Surety & Casualty Co. v. Wynn · Metropolitan Casualty Ins. Co. of New York v. Davis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“« * * * must aiso be observed that the statute of limitations is construed liberally in favor of debtors and that vague expressions must not be tortured into acknowledgments or promises such as would toll the statute of limitations when the language actually used and considered is not clearly subject to such construction. Starr v. Ferguson, 140 Tex. 80 , 166 S.W.2d 130 ; Metropolitan Casualty Ins. Co. of New York v. Davis, Tex.Civ. App., 174 S.W.2d 84 ; Windom v. Howard, 86 Tex. 560 , 26 S.W. 483 ; Standard Surety & Casualty Co. v. Wynn, Tex. Civ.App., 172 S.W.2d 789 .””
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.