Weathers v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2007
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 McMurry v. Stanley · Heinatz v. Allen · Darragh v. Barmore · Bergin v. Bergin · Briggs v. Peebles
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.
“Words in general, whether technical or popular are to be taken in their plain and usual sense, unless a clear intention to use them in another sense can be collected and that sense ascertained besides. All other things being equal the natural and literal import of words and phrases is presumed to have been intended.’’) (quoting Heinatz v. Allen, 147 Tex. 512 , 217 S.W.2d 994, 997 (Tex.1949)). . The Krausse court found that the testatrix intended to”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. Greenberg
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.