Smith v. Pulliam, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1984
3 federal appellate · 7 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 Kramer v. Wilson · Pruett v. First Nat. Bank of Temple · Parks v. Kelley · Continental Insurance Co. v. Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc. · Harger v. Cason
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In our examination of the entire record we find no affirmative showing that any exception to the appellee’s pleadings was ever presented to or acted upon by the trial court as required by Rule 90, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. We must therefore assume that any defect, omission or fault in the pleadings of the appellee was waived by appellants . . ””
1 later decision 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.