58 Tex. Civ. App. 116 - Williams v. Bowie County’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1995
20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Article 790 [now 1366] of the Revised Statutes of 1895, while requiring claims against the county to be first presented to the commissioners’ court * * * as a condition precedent to the institution of suits against the county, does not make it also a condition precedent to the filing of suits that such claims should have been positively rejected and payment refused. It is sufficient if the court ‘neglect’ to allow the claim. We think ‘neglect,’ as that term is here used is sufficiently shown when it appears from the evidence that the court has been given a reasonable time within which to act, and has failed to allow the claim. The purpose of the statute is to furnish the representatives of the county an opportunity to pay demands against it without being har-rassed by suits for their collection.””
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.