Piazza v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably Batex Oil Company v. La Brisa Land and Cattle Co. (1961), Best Investment Company v. Parkhill (1968)
98 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 Compton v. Elliott · Cowden v. Cowden · Higginbotham-Bailey-Logan Co. v. Hancock · Advanced Exploration Co. v. Spires · Talco Asphalt & Refining Co. v. McCann
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““14. Lands. — Suits for the recovery of lands or damages thereto * * *, must be brought in the county in which the land, or a part thereof, may lie.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The correct rule is that stated in Advanced Exploration Co., Inc. v. Spires, Tex.Civ.App., 256 S.W.2d 247 , no writ history, and those cases therein cited as authority for its holding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Piwonka
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.