Bichsel v. Heard’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2009
6 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 Alpha Petroleum Co. v. Terrell · Alpha Petroleum Co. v. Terrell · Hill v. Brown · Salvage Process Corp. v. Acme Tank Cleaning Process Corp. · Dignowity v. Fly
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“effect of instantly dissolving the injunction, although the appellee had a right to file a motion for rehearing and, if this were overruled, then to apply for a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Texas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If we had desired, we could have so worded our judgment, or added a saving clause thereto, which would have prevented it from becoming instantly effective.”
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.