LeCroy v. Hanlon’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Pennzoil Company v. Texaco Inc (1987), Texas Ass'n of Business v. Texas Air Control Board (1993)
77 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 237th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
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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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All courts shall be open, and every person for an injury done him, in his lands, goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘The federal constitution sets the floor for individual rights; state constitutions establish the ceiling.’ ”). And the”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) No bill, (except general appropriation bills, which may embrace the various subjects and accounts, for and on account of which moneys are appropriated) shall contain more than one subject. (b) The rules of procedure of each house shall require that the subject of each bill be expressed in its title in a manner that gives the legislature and the public reasonable notice of that subject. The legislature is solely responsible for determining compliance with the rule.”
3 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.