Covington v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Texas & Pacific Railway Company v. Snider · City of Fort Worth v. Lee, Guardian · H. E. Butt Grocery Co. v. Johnson · Lone Star Gas Co. v. Ballard · Yanowski v. Fort Worth Transit Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Special Issue #18 “Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that Plaintiff, after having driven into the lane for Westbound traffic, if that you have so found, failed to accelerate the speed of his vehicle so as to clear the highway and move to the road leading to the Johnson home? “Answer ‘We do’ or ‘We do not’. “ANSWER: ‘We do’.” Special Issue #24 “Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that Plaintiff, on the occasion in question, immediately prior to the collision, suddenly drove his pick-up truck to his right across the highway to the South, when such movement could not be made in safety? “Answer ‘We do’ or ‘We do not’. “ANSWER: ‘We do’.” Special Issue #38 “Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that on the occasion in question, Rosco S. Claybrook failed to yield the right-of-way to the Acreman vehicle ? “Answer ‘We do’ or ‘We do not’. “ANSWER: ‘We do’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Claybrook v. Acreman
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.