Wright v. Broeter, Dist. J.’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1985
13 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 Neil v. Keese · McGrady v. Terrell, Commissioner · Berger v. Kirby
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [n]othing short of expressions so plain and positive as to force upon the mind an irresistible conviction, or absolute necessity, will justify a court in presuming, that it was the intention of the legislature that their acts passed at the same session, should abrogate and annul one another. * * * ” See 52 Tex.Jur.2d, Statutes, Sections 186 and 188.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex parte Patterson““ * * * The rule is, that in the construction of acts of the same session, the whole must be taken and construed as one act, and to make a latter provision repeal a former, there must be an express repeal, or an irreconcilable repugnancy between them; and then the latter will control. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex parte Patterson
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.