Ruby v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 1995
5 federal appellate · 15 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.
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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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a party files a plea of privilege, he is deemed to have made his appearance in the case, and that shall be considered a full appearance for every purpose except as a waiver of the right to a change of venue. * * * ””
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.