Horton v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But we have concluded that this Court does not have jurisdiction to dispose of the case upon its merits and that appellee’s motion to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction must be sustained, because it appears to us that appellants failed to present their original motion for new trial to the trial judge for action within 30 days after the same was filed, as required by Rule 330(j), T.R.C.P., and they failed to file an appeal bond within 30 days after their motion for new trial was overruled by operation of law, as required by Rule 356(a), T.R.C.P.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lone Star Steel Company v. Owens