Dennis v. Hulse’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Turner v. General Motors Corp. (1979), Commonwealth Lloyd's Insurance Co. v. Thomas (1984)
2 federal appellate · 86 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 Walker v. Texas Employers' Insurance Association · City of Galveston v. Hill · Lumbermen's Lloyds v. Loper · Gilmer v. Griffin · Hulse v. Dennis
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Under our practice an appellate court is not authorized to reverse merely because the record discloses some error that is reasonably calculated to cause a miscarriage of justice. The party appealing must also show that it probably did cause the rendition of an improper judgment in the case. Rules 434 and 503, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure.” (Emphasis supplied).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"If anything is said from which the jury might reasonably infer that the defendant is insured, the court may either order a mistrial or instruct the jury not to consider the improper statement and then await the verdict before determining whether to grant a new trial."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.