Edmondson v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1979
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Cleveland v. Ward · Tinsley v. Dowell · Cleveland & Cameron v. Heidenheimer · 10 Tex. Civ. App. 383 - Houghton & Robinson v. Puryear · Ara v. Rutland
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 cause is remanded to the trial court for a trial of the cross-action of appellant [Edmondson]. The judgment, so far as it disposes of appellee’s [Carroll’s] action for damages, is approved at the cost of appellee, and the trial court will give effect hereto in the judgment upon trial of the cross-action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edmondson v. Carroll
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.