McCraw v. Vickers’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2000
5 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 166th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Ramsey v. Dunlop · Safety Casualty Co. v. Wright · American Mutual Liability Insurance v. Parker · Williams v. Castleman
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... The Constitution has prescribed that the power of determining the number of justice precincts, and of dividing the county into them, shall be exercised ‘from time to time,’ which means it has a potential existence at all times, and the division, redivision, or redetermination may be made at any time. State ex. rel. Dowlen v. Rigsby, 17 Tex.Civ.App. 171 , 43 S.W. 271, 273 . ****** ... But legislation was not necessary to enable the commissioners’ court to exercise any of the powers given in this provision of the Constitution. State ex. rel. Dowlen v. Rigsby, 17 Tex.Civ.App. 171 , 43 S.W. 271 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... When the commissioners’ court was organized, in pursuance of the constitution and the laws passed thereunder, it possessed all powers conferred by both. When the court was once established, no legislation was needed to enable it to exercise the powers given by the above provision, to divide the county into precincts. The direction is plain and simple, and without condition or restriction, except that as to the number of precincts ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In each such precinct there shall be elected one Justice of the Peace and one Constable, each of whom shall hold his office for four years and until his successor shall be elected and qualified; provided that in any precinct in which there may be a city of 18,000 or more inhabitants, there shall be elected two Justices of the Peace.”
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.