Lopez v. Cantu’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1972
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 Henderson Grain Co. v. Russ · Commercial Standard Ins. Co. v. Lowrie · E. L. Witt & Sons v. Stith · American Fruit Growers, Inc. v. Sutherland · Brashears v. Strawn Nat. Bank
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.
““5. Contract in Writing. — If a person has contracted in writing to perform an obligation in a particular county, expressly naming such county, or a-definite place therein, by such writing, suit upon or by reason of such obligation may be brought against him, either in such county or where tthe defendant has «his domicile.””
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.