Pruitt v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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

1. ““In Mabry v. Little, 19 Tex. 337 , Justice Wheeler held that even if the unlearned justice of the peace had no jurisdiction, if the plaintiff submitted to his jurisdiction he waived the trespass and an action for damages would not lie. In Anderson v. Roberts, Tex.Civ.App., 35 S.W. 416 , 417, the rule is stated that even if the justice improperly determines he has jurisdiction, he cannot be held liable for his acts for ‘When the state confers judicial powers upon an individual it confers him with full immunity from private suits.’ The general rule is similarly stated in 51 C.J.S. Justices of the Peace § 19, p. 36, and 173 A.L.R. 802 . The jurisdictional test has been reiterated by such venerable authorities as Coke, Bacon, Blackstone, Kent and the ancient Dalton’s ‘Countrey Justice.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tedford v. McWhorter

2. “It was a settled principle at the very foundation of well-ordered jurisprudence that every judge, whether of a higher or lower court, in the exercise of the jurisdiction, conferred on him by law, had the right to decide according to his own free and unembarrassed convictions, uninfluenced by any apprehension of private prosecution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. B.K. v. Cox