Houston v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1946
5 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 Rogers v. Gosnell
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now comes the plaintiff, C. T. Association, by J. M. Hagaman, the attorney, and moves the court here to dismiss the action, without prejudice to a future action, at cost of plaintiff; which is accordingly done.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dixon v. Peacock““A judgment is the final determination of the rights of the parties in an action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dixon v. Peacock
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.