Pringle v. Nowlin’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2015
6 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 Texas Cities Gas Co. v. Ellis · Davis, Fed. Agent v. Standard Rice · Burnett v. James · Lee v. Chumley Lumber Company
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiff is not required to allege the applicable legal measure of damages, but the court must be able to ascertain from the petition as a whole the appropriate remedy. Whether the petition states a “cause of action” depends upon the adequacy of the allegations to establish his right and a violation thereof by the defendant, rather than upon the statement of a particular remedy to which he believes himself entitled. If the allegations reflect, and the proof establishes, that he is entitled to some relief and furnish information from which the proper judgment may be determined, the court (if not prevented by the insufficiency of the prayer) should award the appropriate recovery. So a petition containing allegations from which the correct measure of damages can be ascertained will not be fatally defective—although subject to “challenge by special exception—because it fails to state the correct measure, or states a measure which is affirmatively erroneous.”
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.