Huddleston v. Pace’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2017
4 federal appellate · 13 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 224th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Birchfield v. Texarkana Memorial Hospital · New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Texas Industries, Inc. · Moore v. Lillebo · Johnson v. Whitehurst · Ortiz v. O. J. Beck & Sons, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person may recover reasonable attorney's fees from an individual or corporation, in addition to the amount of a valid claim and costs, if the claim is for ... an oral or written contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a prerequisite to recovery of damages is the establishment of liability.”
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.