Oake v. Collin County’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 178 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 190 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Bocquet v. Herring (1998), Commissioners Court of Titus County v. Agan (1997)
3 federal appellate · 178 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, 5th District (Dallas))
Relationships
Relies on Cypress Creek Utility Service Co. v. Muller · Espinoza v. Victoria Bank & Trust Co. · Plano Independent School District v. Oake · Nacogdoches Independent School District v. McKinney · Nolan, Sheriff v. San Antonio Ranch 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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the grant or denial of attorney's fees in a declaratory judgment action lies within the discretion of the trial court, and its judgment will not be reversed on appeal absent a clear showing that it abused that discretion.”
5 later decisions 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.