Estes v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1997
4 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 Gussie Fox v. Dallas Hotel Co. · Hines v. Foreman · San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. v. Bowles · Northern Texas Traction Co. v. Woodall · H. & T. C. R'y Co. v. Wilson
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All operators of motor vehicles in passing each other on the public highways shall slow down their speed to fifteen miles per hour. Any person who violates this article shall be fined not to exceed one hundred dollars.”
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.