Williams v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1981
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Bunn v. City of Laredo · Boon v. Chamberlain · Bunn v. City of Laredo · Farmers' Life Ins. Co. v. Wolters · Farmers' Life Ins. Co. v. Wolters
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.
“It is settled law that a statute of limitation, such as this, which applies by its terms to the enforcement of rights already accrued, does not offend against the constitutional prohibition against passage of retroactive laws, or laws impairing the obligation of contracts, because it does not operate upon vested rights, but only upon the remedy for enforcing those rights. It follows, then, that the Legislature may establish, or shorten, the period in which suits may be brought upon existing causes of action, provided a reasonable time is allowed after the enactment in which such suits may be commenced. 16 C.J.S. Constitutional Law, p. 846, § 394; 28 Tex.Jur. 81, subsection 7; De Cordova v. City of Galveston, 4 Tex. 470 ; Boon v. Chamberlain, 82 Tex. 480 , 18 S.W. 655 ; Bunn v. City of Laredo, Tex.Civ.App., 208 S.W. 675 ; Id., Tex.Com.App., 245 S.W. 426 ; Farmers’ Life Ins. Co. v. Wolters, Tex.Com.App., 10 S.W.2d 698 ; Id., Tex.Com.App., 14 S.W.2d 58 .”
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.