Gonzalez v. Gutierrez’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2017
2 federal appellate · 19 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 49th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on White v. Southwestern Bell Tel. Co., Inc. · Raymond v. Yarrington · Levy v. Roper · State Mortgage Corporation v. Traylor · Terry v. Zachry
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he servant who causes a breach of his master’s contract with a third person seems to stand in a wholly different position. He is not a stranger. He is the alter ego of his master. His acts are in law the acts of his employer. In such a case it is the master himself, by his agent, breaking the contract he has made, and in my view an action against the agent ... must therefore fail, just as it would fail if brought against the master himself for wrongfully procuring a breach of his own contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ettenson v. Burke“It is axiomatic that a judgment rendered against a defendant without citation or service upon him, or appearance by him, is a nullity.”
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.