Teaver v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably Sellman v. Haddock (1957), DesGeorges v. Grainger (1966)
40 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 Farmers' State Bank of Texhoma v. Clayton Nat. Bank · Prater v. Holloway · Carlisle v. Walker · Hanson v. Bowman · Roberts v. Bludworth
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In every case the true test to determine whether or not the venue is proper, so that the summons may issue to another county, is whether the defendant served in the' county where the suit is brought[] is a bona fide defendant to the action and whether his interest in the result of the action is in any manner adverse to that of the plaintiff with respect to the cause of action against the other defendants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]ersons having an interest in the controversy and who ought to be made parties, in order that the court may act on that rule which requires it to decide on, and finally determine the entire controversy, and do complete justice, by adjusting all the rights involved in it....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toscano v. Lovato“It is essential ... that the defendant whose residence is made determinative of the venue of the action be a necessary party to the action and not one joined solely to justify the bringing of the action in the county of his residence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toscano v. Lovato
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.