DeBord v. Muller’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Roark v. STALLWORTH OIL AND GAS, INC (1991), McGoodwin v. McGoodwin (1984)
53 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 Tilton v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Womack v. Allstate Insurance Company · McCormick v. Stowe Lumber Company · Vance v. Wilson · Bill Jones v. Hubbard
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not construe Rule 166-A, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure as requiring that a motion for summary judgment can be controverted only by affidavits specifically replying to such motion. In our opinion appellees’ own motion for summary judgment supported by affidavits and exhibits attached thereto, together with the deposition of appellee ..., constituted sufficient opposition to appellants’ motion.”
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.