Ferguson v. Ragland’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2004
3 federal appellate · 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 Benson v. Phipps · Gilliam v. Alford · 25 Tex. Civ. App. 356 - Franklin Insurance v. Villeneuve · Austin Real Estate & Abstract Co. v. Bahn · 23 Tex. Civ. App. 506 - C. M. Hapgood Shoe Co. v. First National Bank
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Appellant on that issue is bound both by the findings of the jury, as well as by his own written declaration. It will be well to remember in such cases the exclamation of old Job, `O, that mine enemy would write a book!' It is not shown by appellant that he did not know what he was doing or that any actual fraud was committed or mutual mistake made in the agreement, or coercion used to compel him to sign his name thereto, which he deliberately signed and acknowledged before his lawyer, a notary public * * *."”
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.