Lanford v. Lovett’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1968
8 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.
Relationships
Relies on Berry v. Pierce Petroleum Corporation
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.
““The rule has been established in this state that in order to sustain venue in a suit upon a promissory note in the county of the forum, upon the ground that the defendant had bound himself in writing to pay the obligation in that county, the burden is upon the plaintiff to not only put in evidence the note sued on, but he must go further and make affirmative proof of the due execution of the obligation. In the absence of such proof, the defendant is entitled to claim his privilege. Berry v. Pierce Petroleum Co., 120 Tex. 452 , 39 S.W.2d 824 ; City of Dilley v. Blank, Tex.Civ.App., 95 S.W.2d 732 . In this case appellees, upon whom that burden rested, failed to prove execution of the note sued on and put in evidence, and therefore the court erred in overruling appellants’ plea of privilege.””
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.