31 Tex. Civ. App. 569 - Fayette County v. Krause’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1989 · most notably Anderson v. Wood (1941), Galveston County v. Gresham (1920)
2 federal appellate · 23 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever may be the extent to which those decisions modify the rule as to the necessity for the entry in the minutes of orders made by a commissioners’ court, they in no way modify the rule that all contracts made by a county, to be valid and binding, must be made by or under authority of an order of the commissioners’ court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rankin v. Noel
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.