Howard v. Clack’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2015
9 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 Lower Colorado River Authority v. City of San Marcos · Weatherly v. Fulgham · City of Beaumont v. Bond · City of Dallas v. Megginson · Young v. State Ex Rel. Hughes
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We find that section 93 imposes on the Garland City Council a mandatory, ministerial duty to order a recall election on presentation of a” petition accompanied by a certificate of the city secretary that the petition is sufficient.”); Holt v. Trantham, 575 S.W.2d 83, 86 (Tex.Civ.App.-Fort Worth 1978, writ ref’d n.r.e.) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Woodfill
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.