Norris v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2021
3 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 301
Relies on Woods v. Alvarado State Bank · Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services v. Mega Child Care, Inc. · Cocke v. Conquest · INWOOD NORTH HOMEOWNERS'ASS'N v. Harris · Cullers v. James
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Does a motorized waterborne vessel, used as a primary residence and otherwise fulfilling all of the requirements of a homestead except attachment to land, qualify for the homestead exemption under Article 16, §§50 and 51 of the Texas Constitution? 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Norris v. Thomas“as both an urban home and a place to exercise a calling or business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.