Dodd v. Meno’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Osterberg v. Peca (2000), Railroad Commission v. Texas Citizens for a Safe Future & Clean Water (2011)
2 federal appellate · 37 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 Tarrant Appraisal District v. Moore · Burch v. City of San Antonio · Flowers v. Dempsey-Tegeler & Co. · Grounds v. Tolar Independent School District · Seifert v. Lingleville Independent School District
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“serious consideration, so long as the construction [was] reasonable and [did] not contradict the plain language of the statute.”
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.