Lancaster v. Lancaster’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1985
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 Cleveland v. Ward · Ex Parte Winfield Scott · V. D. Anderson Co. v. Young · Russell v. Taylor · Ex parte Coward
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.
“Article 4649, R.C.S., preceded Rule 684, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure and our courts held that the provisions of that statute were mandatory rather than directory. (citations omitted). Since the passage of Rule 684 our courts have held the rule mandatory and the issuance of the injunction without the bond void, (citations omitted).”
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.