Gresham v. McElroy’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1978
9 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 Curtis v. Speck · Natalia v. Witthaus · 37 Tex. Civ. App. 615 - Dieter v. Bowers · Brown v. Hewitt · Bischoff v. Rearick
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contract is to be enforced as the parties have made it. It had not provided any particular form or manner for declaring the notes due, but gave the owner and holder of the notes in general terms the right to declare them due, which he could do in any manner he saw fit. The filing of the suit was a declaration of that purpose.” divorce was granted at such time. It will be noted, however, that while the note is not dated, the year 1958 and not 1957 appears thereon. Moreover, the deed of trust which was introduced in evidence and which was executed on January 14, 1958, refers to the note in question as being of even date therewith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickson v. Dickson
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.