Perry v. Del Rio’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably In Re Prudential Insurance Co. of America (2004), In Re McAllen Medical Center, Inc. (2008)
86 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, 3rd District (Austin))
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Buckley v. Valeo · Reynolds v. Sims · Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations · Thomas v. Union Carbide Agricultural Products Co.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a rule, when cases involving the same subject matter are brought in different courts, the court with the first-filed case has dominant jurisdiction and should proceed, and the other cases should abate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The first-filed rule admits of exceptions when its justifications fail, as when ... the race to .the courthouse was unfairly run.”). . V. D. Anderson Co. v. Young, 128 Tex. 631 , 101 S,W.2d 798, 799 (1937). . Wheeler v. Williams, 158 Tex. 383 , 312 S.W.2d 221, 228 (1958). . See Curtis, 511 S.W.2d at 267 (describing a prior allegation that first-filers”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“). [20] Perry v. Del Rio, 66 S.W.3d 239, 250 (Tex. 2001) (quoting 13 CHARLES ALAN WRIGHT, ARTHUR R. MILLER, & EDWARD H. COOPER, FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE § 3532, at 104 (2001 Supp.)); see also Waco Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Gibson, 22 S.W.3d 849, 851-52 (Tex.2000). [21] Inman, 252 S.W.3d at 304-05 . [22] Cf. TEX. FAM.CODE § 3.101 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hagen v. Hagen
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.