Freeman v. Hawkins’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Stuart v. Board of Supervisors of Elections (1972), Emery v. Kipp (1908)
42 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the marriage of Mary E. Robinson the law conferred on her the surname of her husband. 2 Bishop’s Marriage & Divorce, § 704a. A citation, whether to be served personally or by publication, must contain the names of the parties to the action. R. S. art. 1215. We are of opinion that a citation by publication requiring ‘Mary E. Robinson’ to be cited and_ to appear was not sufficient to give the court jurisdiction to render a judgment that would bind ‘Mary E. Freeman.’ McRee v. Brown, 45 Tex. 506 .’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rudolph v. Hively
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.