46 Tex. Civ. App. 449 - McAllen v. Alonzo’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1944
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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the peremptory instruction to find for defendants had been warranted by the law and evidence, we would not likely perceive any harm in giving the instruction orally, though the statute requires charges to the jury to be in writing, and it is thought best in every instance'to be governed by it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thornton v. Daniel
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.