Abor v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably MBM FINANCIAL v. Woodlands Operating Co. (2009), BHP Petroleum Co., Inc. v. Millard (1991)
143 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.
Relationships
Relies on Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island v. Wingate Corp. · Howard v. United States · Iley v. Hughes · EMPLOYERS'FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY v. Beals · Curtis v. Gibbs
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause [the UDJA] appears to give the courts jurisdiction over declarations of non-liability of a potential defendant in a tort action, ... the Bell County District Court had jurisdiction over the suit.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The distinction in Curtis is that one of the courts had enjoined the other court from proceeding. While the language of Curtis could have been more precise, we decline to grant mandamus relief here because there is no conflict of jurisdiction. No injunction has been granted in this case nor has any order which actively interferes with the exercise of jurisdiction in the Harris County District Court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is sound reason why appellate courts should not have jurisdiction to issue writs of mandamus to control or to correct incidental rulings of a trial judge when there is an adequate remedy by appeal. Trials must be orderly; and constant interruption of the trial process by appellate courts would destroy all semblance of orderly trial proceedings.... Having entered the thicket to control or correct one such trial court ruling, the appellate courts would soon be asked in direct proceedings to require by writs of mandamus that trial judges enter orders, or set aside orders, sustaining or overruling (1) pleas to the jurisdiction ....”
2 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.