Eddleman v. McGlathery’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably Greenstein, Logan & Co. v. Burgess Marketing, Inc. (1987), Aetna Ins. Co. v. Dancer (1919)
78 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The judgment of dismissal at the former term was a final judgment, and it is a well-settled rule of practice in this state that after the adjournment of the term at which such a judgment is rendered it is no longer subject to the control of the trial court” (citing Rogers v. Watrous, 8 Tex. 62 [ 58 Am. Dec. 100 ]; Metzger v. Wendler, 35 Tex. 378 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an equitable action after its close to reopen the case and dispose of the litigation upon its merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. Green
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.