Stocking v. Biery’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 150th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Crane v. Tunks · Sabine Offshore Service, Inc. v. City of Port Arthur · State v. Sewell · Vondy v. Commissioners Court of Uvalde County · Freeman v. Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“obvious that he or a lawyer in his firm ought to be called as a witness,”
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.