Gambrell v. Tatum’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 1986 · most notably Wilson v. United Savings of Texas (1986), 101 Cal. App. 2d 533 - Sousa v. First California Co. (1950)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Wood v. Davis · 20 Tex. Civ. App. 405 - Seley & Early v. Williams · Washington v. State · 53 Tex. Civ. App. 448 - Clifton v. Charles · Wilkins v. Somerville
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a real defendant, and one against whom the plaintiff has a cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caughan v. Urquhart
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.