Schaff v. Ellison’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1992
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 Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Bigham · East Line & Red River Railway Co. v. Culberson · Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Templeton · 13 Tex. Civ. App. 653 - Mexican Central Railway Co. v. Mitten · 48 Tex. Civ. App. 203 - Southern Pacific Co. v. Dusablon
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.
““The pleas to the jurisdiction of the court were properly overruled. The action was a transitory one, and, although the injury occurred on land belonging to the United States, it could be enforced in the courts of Texas, and, this would be true, although the cause of action arose in a foreign country.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a defect which reasonably careful inspection will not reveal”
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.