Flora v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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.

1. ““It is understandable that litigants, seeing their opponent’s attorney apparently fraternizing with the judge, might feel that they were at a disadvantagé in the trial, no matter how innocent in fact the conduct complained of may have been.... We cannot say that the jury was probably influenced against appellants by the incident. However, attorneys should be quite circumspect in their relations with a judge during a trial, carefully avoiding the least semblance of personal friendship or familiarity which could possibly be misunderstood by the jury; ...” Flora v. Scott, 398 S.W.2d 627, 632 (Tex.Civ.App.1965).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Abrahamson