Dennis v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Parkway Co. v. Woodruff (1995), Melody Home Manufacturing Co. v. Barnes (1987)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 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, 8th District (El Paso))
Relationships
Relies on McKisson v. Sales Affiliates, Inc. · Jacob E. Decker & Sons, Inc. v. Capps · Nobility Homes of Texas, Inc. v. Shivers · Zipkin v. Freeman · Broyles v. Brown Engineering 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“service transactions. Id. at 96. Moreover, it had specifically recognized that because of the remedies provided by section 402A of the Restatement Second of Torts and the implied warranties of the Texas Uniform Commercial Code,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the protection of Texas consumers no longer requires the utilization of an implied warranty as a matter of public policy.”
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.