Davis v. Huey’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 467 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 475 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Johnson v. Fourth Court of Appeals (1985), Butnaru v. Ford Motor Co. (2002)
3 federal appellate · 467 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 Transport Co. of Texas v. Robertson Transports · Texas Foundaries, Inc. v. International Molders & Foundry Workers Union · Seaman v. Seaman · State v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. · Houston Belt & Terminal Railway Co. v. Texas & New Orleans Railroad
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 475 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[S]uch review is strictly limited to a determination of whether there has been a clear abuse of discretion by the trial court in determining whether the appli cant is entitled to a preservation of the status quo pending trial on the merits..."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““At a hearing upon the request for a temporary injunction the only question before the trial court is whether the applicant is entitled to preservation of the status quo of the subject matter of the suit pending trial on the merits. Houston Belt & T. Ry. Co. v. Texas & New Orleans R. Co., supra. On appeal the reviewing court is limited in its consideration as to whether the trial court abused its discretion in making the foregoing determination.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““This court will not assume that the evidence taken at a preliminary hearing will be the same as the evidence developed at a full trial on the merits.” (Id.)”
3 later decisions 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.