Valley v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2005
12 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 Transport Co. of Texas v. Robertson Transports · Texas Foundaries, Inc. v. International Molders & Foundry Workers Union · City of Dallas v. Wright · Tarrant Savings Association v. Lucky Homes, Inc. · Allen Sales & Servicenter, Inc. v. Ryan
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at least 21 days before the date of sale”
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.