4 Tex. Civ. App. 490 - Lytle v. Custead’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““One of the errors assigned is the action of the court in rendering a judgment by default against defendants when their answer was on file. This assignment is untenable. Something more is required of a defendant than the mere filing of an answer. He is then presumed to be in court, and ready to see his rights protected, to call the attention of the court to his. answer, and demand proof of plaintiff’s claim.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wood v. Love