Wright v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 150th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Downer v. Aquamarine Operators, Inc. · Craddock v. Sunshine Bus Lines, Inc. · Johnson v. Fourth Court of Appeals · Smithson v. Cessna Aircraft Co. · Villegas v. Carter
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No jury trial shall be had in any civil suit, unless a written request for a jury trial is filed with the clerk of the court a reasonable time before the date set for trial of the cause on the non-jury docket, but not less than thirty days in advance.”
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.