Deviney v. McLendon’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2006
10 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 Garza v. Alviar · Wagner v. Foster · C. & R. TRANSPORT, INC. v. Campbell · Boaz v. White's Auto Stores · Texas & Pacific Railway Company v. Van Zandt
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For one to be afforded the sudden emergency theory of relief of negligent action, the condition or circumstances relied upon must arise suddenly and unexpectedly, must call for action leaving no time for deliberation, and must not be brought about or proximately caused by the negligence of the party seeking to avail himself of the doctrine. Dallas Ry. & Terminal Co. v. Young, 155 S.W.2d 414 (Tex.Civ.App., refused); Goolsbee v. Texas & N.O.R. Co., 150 Tex. 528 , 243 S.W.2d 386 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordan v. Shields““ . . . In submitting special issues the court shall submit such explanatory instructions and such definitions of legal terms as shall be necessary to enable the jury to properly pass upon and render a verdict on such issues, and in such instances the charge shall not be subject to the objection that it is a general charge.” (Emphasis added.)”
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.