McDonald v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2016
11 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 Probate Court)
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · MMP, Ltd. v. Jones · Jones v. Strauss · Tobin v. Garcia · Tobin v. Garcia
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person interested may, by a bill of review filed in the court in which the probate proceedings were had, have any decision, order or judgment rendered by the court ... revised and corrected on showing error therein....”
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.