Ware v. Marquez’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1996
5 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 Crane v. Tunks · Johnson v. Court of Civil Appeals · Traywick v. Goodrich · Texas State Board of Examiners in Optometry v. Carp · State v. Olsen
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The authority of Courts of Civil Appeals to issue writs of mandamus is limited to that given by Articles 1823 and 1824, Vernon’s Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. These articles authorize the issuance of such writs where necessary to enforce their jurisdiction or to direct the District or County Court to proceed to trial and judgment in a case. Relator relies on the rule of law that if there is no irreconcilable conflict in a jury’s findings it is the ministerial duty of the Judge to enter a judgment on the verdict and the matter involves no judicial or discretionary power. Traywick v. Goodrich, 364 S.W.2d 190 (Tex.Sup.1963); Texas State Board of Examiners in Optometry v. Carp, 388 S.W.2d 409 (Tex.Sup.1965). The cases are numerous in which Courts of Civil Appeals have announced and followed this rule_”
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.