Stubbs v. Stubbs’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably General Electric Co. v. Falcon Ridge Apartments, Joint Venture (1991), Texaco, Inc. v. Central Power & Light Co. (1996)
136 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas))
Relationships
Relies on Lawyers Lloyds v. Webb · Brown v. McLennan County Children's Protective Services · Rogers v. Rogers · Morgan Express, Inc. v. Elizabeth-Perkins, Inc. · Thacker v. Thacker
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No party who participates either in person or by his attorney in the actual trial of the case in the trial court shall be entitled to review by the court of appeals through means of writ of error.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““A record shall be made as in civil cases generally unless waived by the parties with the consent of the court.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tanguma v. State · Gsk v. Tkn“hearing in open court, leading up to the rendition of judgment, on the questions of law, if the case is disposed of on the questions of law, or on the questions of fact, if the final judgment is rendered on the facts. The statute was intended to cut off the right of appeal by writ of error of those who participate in the hearing in open court in the trial that leads to final judgment.”
3 later decisions 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.