Brooks Supply Co. v. Hardee’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1989
7 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 Flanagan v. Smith · Ponton v. Bellows
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * where a plaintiff in a case pending on the docket of a court fails to take action therein for four years, in which time the cause of action would be barred by limitation, the defendant should be held to be released from further attention to or defense of the case." Brooks Supply Co. v. Hardee, Tex.Civ. App., Beaumont, 32 S.W.2d 384, 386 , col. 2 (writ ref.).”
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.