Smith v. Texas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Key Western Life Insurance v. State Board of Insurance (1961), International Security Life Insurance Co. v. Spray (1971)
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.
Relationships
Relies on Mankin v. United States ex rel. Ludowici-Celadon Co. · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Cunningam · Imperial Irrigation Co. v. Jayne · American Indemnity Co. v. City of Austin · Buerger v. Wells
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it fairly- appears from a consideration of the general scheme of legislation upon this subject that it was the intention of the Legislature to enable those furnishing labor, material, and equipment to a subcontractor for any public improvement to receive payment therefor to the extent of any unpaid balance due said subcontractor at the time notice required by statute is given.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The determination as to whether an attorney’s fee awarded by a trial court is excessive in amount is, of course a proper exercise of the appellate jurisdiction of the Court of Civil Appeals. But the fixing by it of an attorney’s fee, when such issue has not been determined by the trial court, would constitute the exercise of an original rather than an appellate jurisdiction.” (Smith v. Texas Co., 53 S.W.2d 774 , Tex.Com.App.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Volkmer v. Chase
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.