Garza v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2011
4 federal appellate · 8 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 Black Lake Pipe Line Co. v. Union Construction Co. · Benson v. Wanda Petroleum Company · Kirby Lumber Corp. v. Southern Lumber Co. · Rio Bravo Oil Co. v. Hebert · Houston Terminal Land Co. v. Westergreen
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) valuable sendees were rendered or materials furnished, (2) for the person sought to be charged, (3) the services and materials were accepted by the person sought to be charged, and (4) under such circumstances as would reasonably notify the person sought to be charged that the plaintiff, in performing such services was expected to be paid by the person sought to be charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order to be tortuous interference with the contract of another the assertion of a right must be without right or justification, and 'the act of interference to be actionable must have been knowingly done without right or justifiable cause.'”
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.