49 Tex. Civ. App. 193 - Davis v. Sisk’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The [trial] court did not err in not permitting appellant’s (Davis’) wife to testify that appellant told her on the way to Mt. Yernon to sign the deeds, and on the return therefrom that the ‘trade between himself and the defendant was that defendant was to pay the debts against the firm and business,’ etc. This testimony was hearsay and self-serving, and * * * clearly inadmissible.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barton v. McGuire