Reeder v. Daniel’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Boudreaux v. Swift Transportation Co. (2005), D. Houston, Inc. v. Love (2002)
5 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont))
Relationships
Relies on Mitseff v. Wheeler · El Chico Corp. v. Poole · Congini by Congini v. PORTERSVILLE ETC. · Ely v. Murphy · Triplex Communications, Inc. v. Riley
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Negligence per se is a common-law doctrine that allows courts to rely on a penal statute to define a reasonably prudent person's standard of care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is fundamental... that a legal duty must exist before a defendant is held liable for negligence.”
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.