40 Tex. Civ. App. 441 - Callaghan v. Tobin’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1999 · most notably De Castro v. Board of Commissioners (1944), State Ex Rel. Dishman v. Gary (1962)
26 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All officers within this state shall continue to perform the duties of their offices until their successors shall be duly qualified.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““In this suit the petition alleges the case of an officer duly appointed, and in lawful possession of the office, and property appertaining thereto, to which he was appointed by lawful authority, and the threatened interference with him in such possession and his removal therefrom by persons alleged to have no legal authority therefor and having no title to the office.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The suit does not purport to be one between claimants for the office, each claiming to have the legal right thereto, but is a proceeding to enjoin persons making no claim to the office, but who are contemplating and intending to dispossess the party seeking the injunction. This distinction must be kept in view in the consideration of the questions submitted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Troilo v. Gittinger
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.