Barron v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Arkoma Basin Exploration Co. v. FMF Associates 1990-A, Ltd. (2008), Roberson Farm Equipment Company v. Hill (1973)
88 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 Ricker, Lee & Co. v. Shoemaker · Austin v. William Cameron & Co. · Smith Bros. Grain Co. v. Windsor · Wandelohr v. Rainey · Casey, Jr. v. Bell
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the driver failed to reduce the speed of the bus before undertaking to pass the horse”. Barron v. James, 145 Tex. 283 , 198 S.W.2d 256, 260 . “That the driver was guilty of negligence in not driving sufficiently to his left to avoid coming in contact with the horse”. Barron v. James, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gaines v. Bader“The primary purpose of these rules is that the particular point of objection be presented to the court in such way that it may be clearly understood.”). . See TexR. Civ. P. 322 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.