Thornton v. Smith County’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 1998
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stedman v. Georgetown Savings & Loan Ass'n · Scott v. Graham · Ray v. Farmers' State Bank of Hart · Lower Colorado River Authority v. City of San Marcos · Williams v. Castleman
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notice of a meeting must be posted in a place readily accessible to the general public at all times for at least 72 hours preceding the scheduled time of the meeting....”
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.