Thomas v. Harris County’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 270th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on DeWitt v. Harris County · Harris County v. Dillard · 17 Wash. App. 236 - Shea v. City of Spokane · MBank El Paso, N.A. v. Sanchez · Continental Insurance Company v. Wolford
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person, including an officer or agent, who is in the paid service of a governmental unit by competent authority, but does not include an independent contractor, an agent or employee of an independent contractor, or a person who performs tasks the details of which the governmental unit does not have the legal right to control.”
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.