Flynt v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Continental Coffee Products Co. v. Cazarez (1997), Allied Finance Co. v. Garza (1981)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Haginas v. Malbis Memorial Foundation · Isbell v. Kenyon-Warner Dredging Co. · Garcia v. Flynt
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule applied here will serve the purposes of judicial economy. The opinion of the court of civil appeals would reverse the judgment and remand the cause for another trial in the county court at law while allowing only a partial recovery of the amount due. If another suit is required to recover the balance, three lawsuits will result from this single claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.