Parson v. Texas City’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1989 · most notably City of Austin v. Daniels (1960), City of Austin v. Schmedes (1955)
27 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 McFarlane v. City of Niagara Falls · City of Amarillo v. Ware · City of Galveston v. Posnainsky · Johnston v. City of East Moline · Gotcher v. City of Farmersville
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) When a city, in the exercise of its governmental function of controlling traffic, uses means that constitute a dangerous physical obstruction of the street, it commits an affirmative wrong for which recovery will be allowed. Baker v. City of Waco, [Tex.Civ.App., 129 S.W.2d 499 ]; Murphy v. Incorporated Village of Farmingdale, 252 App.Div. 327 , 299 N.Y.S. 586 ; Mayor and Aldermen of City of Vicksburg v. Harralson, 136 Miss. 872 , 101 So. 713 , 39 A. L.R. 777; Town of Hobart v. Casbon, 81 Ind.App. 24 , 142 N.E. 138 . * * *”
4 later decisions 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.