60 Tex. Civ. App. 51 - Sorrell v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2000 · most notably Singer v. Allied Factors, Inc. (1944), Bell v. Bell (1952)
2 district · 33 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of the opinion that the action of appellant after announcing ready for trial in declining to offer any testimony in support of her motion or petition must be construed as an abandonment of the same as effectively as if it had been withdrawn and the case been dismissed, and that she thereby lost her right to appeal. Galveston, H. & S. A. Railway v. Schlather [Tex.Civ. App.] 78 S.W. 953 ; Schulz v. Tessman, 92 Tex. [488] 490, 49 S.W. 1031 ; Texas Portland Cement & Lime Co. v. Lee, 98 Tex. 236 , 82 S.W. 1025 ; Bledsoe v. Railway, 6 Tex.Civ.App. 280 , 25 S.W. 314 ; Houston, E. & W. T. Railway v. Perkins [Tex.Civ. App.] 44 S.W. 547 ; Texas & N. O. Railway v. Hook, 30 Tex.Civ.App. 325 , 70 S.W. 233 ; Grier v. Powell, 14 Tex. 320 ; 2 Ency. Plead. & Prac. 106. “The authorities cited support the proposition that when a litigant voluntarily announces ready for trial upon an issue which he has presented, and then declines to offer any testimony in support of such issue, he thereby abandons the cause of action set up in his pleading. And, when a party has so abandoned his cause of action, we do not believe that it was intended that he should have the right to appeal from the judgment of the court disposing of his case, although such appeal might result in a trial de novo in the court to which the case would be carried by the appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cannon v. Willis
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.