Fry v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1993
13 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 Imperial Irrigation Co. v. Jayne · McCammon & Lang Lumber Co. v. Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway Co. · Travis County v. Trogdon · Lamar County v. Clements · Sabine & East Texas Railway Co. v. Gulp & Interstate Railway Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While the district court is given general power to review the proceedings of the commissioners' court, yet in the matter of changing the route of a public road full power and discretion seems to be lodged in the commissioners' court alone, and neither the district court nor this court would have the power to substitute its judgment for that of the commissioners' court or otherwise set aside that court's final conclusion, except upon a finding that it was corruptly or arbitrarily done. See Stuckey v. Jones (Tex.Civ.App.) 240 S.W. 565 ; Culp v. Commissioners' Court of Coryell County (Tex.Civ. App.) 214 S.W. 944 ; Tippett v. Gates (Tex.Civ.App.) 223 S.W. 702 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“For by the latter legislation (Art. 7585), which must control, it is expressly made the `duty' of the commissioners' court to change a road if upon ground necessary for a dam site.”
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.