Comanche County v. Burks’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1997
17 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 Crampton v. Zabriskie · Delta County v. Blackburn · Heigel v. Wichita County · Hamilton County v. Garrett · 12 Tex. Civ. App. 466 - Gaines v. Newbrough
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principle of the cases last noted may be said to be dependent upon the very generally recognized rule that officers, to whom have been committed the power of acting in a judicial or quasi judicial capacity, cannot be held liable for an honest, though mistaken, exercise of their powers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Torres v. Owens
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.