45 Tex. Civ. App. 480 - Simon v. Nance’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Comanche Duke Oil Co. v. Texas Pac. Coal & Oil Co. (1927), Williams v. Thompson (1953)
29 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We are of opinion limitation ran only from the time the injury was done, and not from the time the ditch was originally constructed, and that the plaintiff's cause of action was not barred by limitation or prescription."”
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.