Norris v. W’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2021
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Owen v. Owen · Woods v. Alvarado State Bank · Bradley v. Pacific Southwest Bank · Cullers v. James · Perry v. Ssb
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Does a motorized waterborne vessel, used as a primary residence and otherwise fulfilling all of the requirements of a homestead except attachment to land, qualify for the homestead exemption under Article 16, §§ 50 and 51 of the Texas Constitution?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Norris v. Thomas · Norris v. Thomas“An exemption is an interest withdrawn from the estate (and hence from the creditors) for the benefit of the debtor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[h]omesteads are favorites of the law, and are liberally construed by Texas courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.