Echols v. Echols’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
3
states following
October 2007
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Taggart v. Taggart · Berry v. Berry · Baxter v. Ruddle · Pierce v. Pierce · Fleming v. Taylor
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“PREMATURELY FILED DOCUMENTS No motion for new trial or request for findings of fact and conclusions of law shall be held ineffective because prematurely filed; but every such motion shall be deemed to have been filed on the date of but subsequent to the time of signing of the judgment the'motion assails, and every such request for findings of fact and conclusions' of law shall be deemed to have been filed an the date of but subsequent to the time of signing of the judgment.”
1 later decision 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.