Williams v. Khalaf’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Federal Sign v. Texas Southern University (1997), S.V. v. R.V. (1996)
17 federal appellate · 108 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, 1st District (Houston))
Relationships
Relies on Pool v. Ford Motor Co. · Sterner v. Marathon Oil Co. · Arnold v. National County Mutual Fire Insurance Co. · Willis v. Maverick · Stafford v. Stafford
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person must bring suit for trespass for injury to the estate or to the property of another, conversion of personal property, taking or detaining the personal property of another, personal injury, forcible entry and detainer, and forcible detainer not later than two years after the date the cause of action accrues.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“... In general, torts developed from the common law action for 'trespass', and a tort not expressly covered by a limitation provision nor expressly held by this court to be governed by a different provision would presumptively be a 'trespass' for limitations purposes. The same common law development simply does not apply to fraud as to most other torts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Chapman · Nghiem v. Sajib“construe points of error liberally in order to adjudicate justly, fairly and equitably the rights of the litigants.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Silverthorne v. Mosley · In Re BLRP
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.