Clanton v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Cunningham v. Parkdale Bank (1983), Su Inn Ho v. University of Texas at Arlington (1998)
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.
Relationships
Relies on Mosher v. Tunnell · Buck v. Johnson · Clanton v. Clark
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party seeking affirmative relief may be ruled to give security for costs at any time before final judgment, upon motion of any party, or any officer of the court interested in the costs accruing in such suit, or by the court upon its own motion. If such rule be entered against any party and he failed to comply therewith on or before twenty (20) days after notice that such rule has been entered, the claim for affirmative relief of such party shall be dismissed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“wide discretion in managing its docket ... we will not interfere with the exercise of that discretion absent a showing of clear abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trevino v. Trevino“duty to schedule its cases in such a manner as to expeditiously dispose of them”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trevino v. Trevino
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.