H.E. Butt Grocery Co. v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Keetch v. Kroger Co. (1992), Clayton W. Williams, Jr., Inc. v. Olivo (1997)
2 federal appellate · 30 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, 10th District (Waco))
Relationships
Relies on Texas Department of Human Services v. E.B. · Roark v. Allen · Rosas v. Buddies Food Store · Keetch v. Kroger Co. · Corbin v. Safeway Stores, 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fairly read, alleged only a claim based upon premises liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Williams v. Olivo
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.