Bledsoe v. Burleson’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1971
8 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 24 Tex. Civ. App. 341 - San Antonio Gas Co. v. Singleton · 52 Tex. Civ. App. 543 - De Hoyes v. Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. · Keller v. Lindow · Scott v. Jackson · Robbins v. Bell
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This suit is the outgrowth of the flogging case in Williamson county, in which several of the floggers were convicted of felonious assaults upon appellee, R. W. Burleson. He sued 37 defendants for damages resulting from said assault and flogging which occurred about April 1, 1923, and charged conspiracy among all of said defendants to commit said criminal assault. Upon the trial appellee dismissed his suit as to 10 of said defendants. At the close of the evidence the court gave peremptory instructions to the jury to find in favoi of 15 other defendants. Upon the finding of the jury judgment was rendered in favor of appellee against the remaining defendants for the sum of $7,000 damages. The trial court granted plaintiff’s motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence. And it is from this action of said court that the 15 defendants who had an instructed verdict in their favor have appealed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burleson v. Bledsoe
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.