Harris v. Sadler’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1978
5 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 P. J. Willis & Bro. v. McNeill · Robbins v. Wynne · Texas Indemnity Ins. Co. v. McCurry · Floyd v. Fidelity Union Casualty Co. · Lindsay v. Jaffray
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Special Issue No. 1: Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that prior to the break the defendant failed to inspect the pipe line in the west pasture of plaintiff’s known as the 6-inch pipe line to discover defects, if any therein existed? Answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. Answer: No.” “Special Issue No. 11: Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that defendant failed to properly inspect on or before January 9th, 1942, the 4-inch pipe line on the Miller tract? Answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. Answer: No.” “Special Issue No. 4: Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant was using excessive pressure on the said 6-inch line in the west pasture of the plaintiff at the time it broke? Answer ‘Yes’or‘No’. Answer: No.” “Special Issue No. 14: Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that at the time the line broke on the Miller tract that the defendant was using excessive pressure on said line? Answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. Answer: No.””
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.