Eubanks v. Winn’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably Fields v. Volkswagen of America, Inc. (1976), Ford Motor Co. v. Sheldon (2000)
2 federal appellate · 62 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 Iley v. Hughes · Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. McLaughlin · Waples-Platter Co. v. Commercial Standard Insurance · Harris v. Christianson-Keithley Company · Malone v. Pioneer Bus Co.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... That rule [TEX.R.CIV.P. 301] provides that upon motion and notice given, judgment may be entered notwithstanding the verdict or upon disregarding one or more special findings. A judgment notwithstanding the verdict is authorized under Rule 301 only when a directed verdict would have been proper; and special issue findings may be disregarded which are immaterial or have no support in the evidence....””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he issues of liability and of damages in cases such as those [personal injury claims] are elements of an indivisible cause of action and may not be tried piecemeal.”
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.