Turner v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Reese (1979), Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. v. National Development & Research Corp. (2009)
99 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 TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INS. ASS'N v. Haywood · Wade v. TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INS. ASS'N · Van Zandt v. Fort Worth Press · Younger Brothers, Inc. v. Myers · Wolf v. Perryman
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule of law in this state is that, unless provided for by statute or by contract between the parties, attorney’s fees incurred by a party to litigation are not recoverable against his adversary either in an action in tort or by suit upon a contract. Van Zandt v. Ft. Worth Press, 359 S.W.2d 893, 896 (5), Tex.Sup. 1962; Perry v. Leuttich, 132 Tex. 159 , 121 S.W.2d 332, 333 (2-4), 1938; Wm. Cameron & Co. v. American Surety Co. of New York, 55 S.W.2d 1032, 1035 (3), Tex.Com.App., 1932; Sherrick v. Wyland, 14 Tex.Civ.App. 299 , 37 S.W. 345 , 1896””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“One who through the tort of another has been required to act in the protection of his interests by bringing or defending an action against a third person is entitled to recover reasonable compensation for loss of time, attorney fees and other expenditures thereby suffered or incurred in the earlier action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Argument which could be properly cured by objection by opposing counsel and instruction by the trial judge is not reversible error in the absence of such objection. Unless the argument is incurable, a litigant will not be permitted to lie in wait, taking a chance on a favorable verdict, and, being disappointed, complain for the first time of improper argument in a motion for 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.