State v. Terrell’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 147 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably City of Brownsville v. Alvarado (1995), City of San Antonio v. City of Boerne (2003)
6 federal appellate · 147 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 Lowe v. Texas Tech University · Texas Highway Department v. Weber · State v. Dyer · Westminster Investing Corp. v. G. C. Murphy Co. · County of Brazoria v. Radtke
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such a policy decision is not subject to an attack of negligence under this Act. This policy, however, obviously does not include directing the officer to strike any vehicle in his path in apprehending a speeder. The accident which occurred in this case was not a part of the formulated policy. Therefore, the State is subject to liability for injuries resulting from the negligence, if any, of the highway patrolman in colliding with Mr. Terrell’s vehicle.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““(8) Any claim arising out of the action of an officer, agent or employee while responding to emergency calls or reacting to emergency situations when such action is in compliance with the laws and ordinances applicable to emergency action.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he purpose is ... to avoid a judicial review that would question the wisdom of a government’s exercise of its discretion in making policy decisions. The interests to be served are several — e.g., effective, unfettered performance of officials in making policy decisions and the maintenance of the separation of powers between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.”
6 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.