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← 283 SW 765 - Bell v. Blackwell

Bell v. Blackwell’s Empirical Analysis

1926

Citation profile

117
cited by 117 later decisions
2
states following
March 1995
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 115 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably Ramirez v. Acker (1940), Robbins v. Wynne (1932)

1 federal appellate · 115 state decisions

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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 Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Hannig · Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Co. v. Cox · Houston & Texas Central Railroad v. Gray · Moore v. Ivey · Southern Traction Co. v. Wilson

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

  1. ““If the evidence taken by the trial judge left it reasonably doubtful as to the effect the statement had upon the amount of the verdict of the jury, we would feel inclined to exercise our authority and set it aside.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Leath v. Benton Abstract & Title Co.
  2. “the real rule is that, where error is of such a nature under all the circumstances as probably to have prejudiced the complainant, reversal should follow as matter of law,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Nicholson v. Nicholson
  3. “Whether plaintiffs in error were prejudiced by the alleged improper argument involves an inquiry of fact and a finding of the Court of Civil Appeals thereon is final.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Mann v. Cook

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.