Davis v. Mathis’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Thomas v. Oldham (1995), Newman v. Obersteller Ex Rel. Obersteller (1997)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 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 14th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Qantel Business Systems, Inc. v. Custom Controls Co. · Baker v. Story · Brown v. Prairie View a & M University · Moncrief v. Harvey · Alvarado v. City of Lubbock
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judgment in an action or a settlement of a claim under this chapter bars any action involving the same subject matter by the claimant against the employee of the governmental unit whose act or omission gave rise to the claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the damage or injury claimed; (2) the time and place of the incident; and (3)the incident. [[Image here]] (c) the notice requirements provided or ratified and approved by Subsections (a) and (b) do not apply if the governmental unit has actual notice that death has occurred, that the claimant has received some injury, or that the claimant’s property has been damaged.”
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.