Bonner v. Texas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
89 F.2d 291 · 1937
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Gulf Refining Co. v. Brown (1938), Cagle v. McQueen (1952)
12 federal appellate · 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · Pennsylvania Co v. Chamberlain · Lake Shore Ry Co v. Prentice · St. Clair v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Compensation was paid under the [TWCA], but the Texas Constitution, art. 16, Sec. 26, gives an action for exemplary damages against 'every person, corporation, or company, that may commit a homicide, through wilful act, or omission, or gross neglect'; and the Workmen's Compensation Law, Rev. Civ. Stats. art. 8306, Sec. 5, preserves this action notwithstanding compensation may be paid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Res ipsa loquitur does not help, for that doctrine applies only when the instrumentalities causing the in-' jury are shown to have been wholly in the care of defendant, and not to have been meddled with by the person injured or outsiders.””
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.