Schaff v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1949
11 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 Texas Ry Co v. Archibald · Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Hannig · Currie v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. · H. T.C.R.R. Co. v. Turner · Magnolia Paper Co. v. Duffy
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the case is submitted upon special issues, and a separate and distinct finding of negligence is made by the jury in conformity with the pleadings and proof, although a different and additional finding of negligence is made unwarrantedly under a wrong, but distinctly submitted, issue, the valid finding should be upheld and the improper one disregarded; the liability being the same if the latter were eliminated.””
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.