Trinity River Authority v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont))
Relationships
Relies on Foremost Insurance v. Richardson · Great Northern Life Ins Co v. Read · Salcedo v. El Paso Hospital District · Clark v. Waggoner · McCormick v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This notice requirement, contained within the Texas Tort Claims Act ... obviously is a limitation which the state clearly intended to apply to tort claims under the Act whether or not they are in state or federal court or under state or maritime law. As such it is binding since it is in terms[,] a limit on the waiver of sovereign immunity.”
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.