Hitt v. Mabry’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2018
13 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 37th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Garza v. Alviar · Glover v. Texas General Indemnity Co. · Villalobos v. Holguin · San Antonio Bar Ass'n v. Guardian Abstract & Title Co. · Shackelford v. City of Abilene
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiffs alleged that the use of the telephone polls was a conspiracy to circumvent the provisions of the Open Meetings Act.... As applicable to this case, the “governmental body” which is required to meet publicly is the Board of Trustees, and the requirements that meetings of that body be public applies only when a quorum is present, since in the absence of a quorum there is no “meeting.” Notice of deliberations is required only where the deliberation involves a quorum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.