Yates v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2025
24 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 Texas Company v. W.H. Daugherty · Humphreys-Mexia Co. v. Gammon · Hager v. Stakes · World Company v. Dow · Elliott v. Nelson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether or not the suit as instituted by the plaintiffs was one coming within the provisions of that subdivision of the statute was a legal question, and not a question of fact, and the defendant’s allegation that it was not such a suit was a mere conclusion of law, and not an allegation of fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * determinable and provable ‘solely by the allegations contained in the petition, and is a question of law to be determined by the court and not a question of fact to be determined by testimony aside from the allegations in the petition.’ ” Yates v. State, Tex.Civ.App., 3 S.W.2d 114, 117 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no exception to exclusive venue in the county of one's residence provided by law exists”
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.