Estep v. Bratton’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gussie Fox v. Dallas Hotel Co. · 11 Tex. Civ. App. 503 - Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Brown · Interstate Casualty Co. of Birmingham v. Hogan · Fort Worth & D. C. Ry. Co. v. Hawley · Turner v. Dinwiddie
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.
“Do you find from the evidence in this case that the conduct of the defendant towards the plaintiff, as alleged in the plaintiff's petition is of such a nature as to render their further living together insupportable?”
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.