26 Tex. Civ. App. 34 - Messer v. Cross’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1977 · most notably Garitty v. Halbert (1921), Barker v. Wilson, Co. (1917)
29 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intention to contest the election, and of the grounds of such contest, to which they were entitled under the law, or which possibly could have been given them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. Thetford
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.