Perkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Martin Eby Construction Company Inc v. Dallas Area Rapid Transit (2004), City of LaPorte v. Barfield (1995)
2 federal appellate · 85 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
Applies 13 U.S.C. § 8
Relies on McDonald v. Thompson · Simmons v. Arnim · Gilmore v. Waples · Eddins-Walcher Butane Company v. Calvert · State of Texas v. Bradford
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... it is settled that every word in a statute is presumed to have been used for a purpose; and a cardinal rule of statutory construction is that each sentence, clause and word is to be given effect if reasonable and possible...." Perkins v. State, 367 S.W.2d 140, at 146 (Tex.Sup.1963).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““Sec. 7. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any city or town now involved in litigation questioning the legality of the incorporation or extension of boundaries hereby validated if such litigation is ultimately determined against the legality thereof; . . .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““In considering the applicability of a validating act, this Court must acknowledge the principle that even though an act of incorporation is void from its inception because of an unwarranted exercise of power or because of an entire absence of power, the Legislature may validate such act and make it live, for what the Legislature has the power to authorize, it has the power to ratify.””
2 later decisions 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.