18 Tex. Civ. App. 488 - Kalteyer v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Coleman v. Frame (1910), Dallas Cotton Mills v. Industrial Co. (1927)
52 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.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A way over land set apart for public travel in a town or city is a street, no matter what it may be called. It is the purpose for which it is laid out and the use made of it that determines its character. ‘Street’ is a general term, and includes all urban ways which can be and are generally used for the ordinary purposes of travel.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if the alley is a public one, it is a highway, and, in general, is governed by the rules applicable to streets.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] narrow way, less in size than a street,”
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.