Cook v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2002
12 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 City of Amarillo v. Hancock · Texas Liquor Control Board v. Canyon Creek Land Corp. · State v. Bush · State v. Bush
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Legislature in enacting Section 7a, Article 666-15e, also included the statement that the requirement for a ten-day trial, as well as other requirements not here in point, ‘shall be considered literally.’ The statute leaves no room for interpretation or discretion. There was a lim ited right to a trial on appeal and that right was exhausted ten days after (the appeal was filed).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Sec. 11.67. Appeal from Cancellation, Suspension, or Refusal of License or Permit. (a) An appeal from an order of the commission ... refusing ... a permit or license may be taken to the district court of the county in which the applicant ... resides. (b) The appeal shall be under the substantial evidence rule and against the commission alone as defendant. The rules applicable to ordinary civil suits apply, with the following exceptions, which shall be construed literally. [[Image here]] (2) the case shall be tried before a judge within 10 days from the date it is filed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the time for an appeal endured for ten days and that there [was] no authority to extend that time.”
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.