Garcia v. Peeples’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably In Re Colonial Pipeline Co. (1998), National Tank Co. v. Brotherton (1993)
74 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, 4th District (San Antonio))
Relationships
Relies on Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Hickman v. Taylor · United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto Co. · Donovan v. City of Dallas
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Shared discovery is an effective means to insure full and fair disclosure. Parties subject to a number of suits concerning the same subject matter are forced to be consistent in their responses by the knowledge that their opponents can compare those responses.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a particular, articulated and demonstrable injury”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[5]hared discovery makes the system itself more efficient. The current discovery process forces similarly situated parties to go through the same discovery process time and time again, even though the issues involved are virtually identical. Benefiting from restrictions on discovery, one party facing a number of adversaries can require his opponents to duplicate another’s discovery efforts, even though the opponents share similar discovery needs and will litigate similar issues. Discovery costs are no small part of the overall trial expense.”
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.