Mapco, Inc. v. Forrest’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably In the Matter of Terry Gober Terry Gober v. Terra + Corporation (1996), State Ex Rel. Latty v. Owens (1995)
126 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, 9th District (Beaumont))
Relationships
Relies on Browning v. Placke · Freeman v. Freeman · Cook v. Cameron · Johnson v. Sovereign Camp Woodmen of the World · Middleton v. Murff
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judgment is void only when it is apparent that the court rendering the judgment had no jurisdiction of the parties, no jurisdiction of the subject matter, no jurisdiction to enter the judgment, or no capacity to act as a court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“jurisdictional power' in the sense of lack of subject matter jurisdiction.... Absent one of those rare circumstances that makes the judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mapco Underground Storage of Texas, Inc.” to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.