Westgate, Ltd. v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Crown Life Insurance Company v. Casteel (2000), T.O. Stanley Boot Co. v. Bank of El Paso (1993)
2 federal appellate · 110 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, 3rd District (Austin))
Relationships
Relies on Benoit v. Wilson · 8 Cal. 3d 39 - Klopping v. City of Whittier · Holt Atherton Industries, Inc. v. Heine · Burk Royalty Co. v. Walls · Acker v. Texas Water Commission
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The policy reasons that support our decision today [that delaying condemnation of property after announcement of an intent to do so is not a taking] might not be applicable where the condemning authority is accused of intentionally injuring a landowner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.