Syntax, Inc. v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2013
7 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, 1st District (Houston))
Relationships
Relies on Texas National Guard Armory Board. v. McCraw · Smith v. Davis · Cramer v. Sheppard · Board of Insurance Commissioners v. Guardian Life Insurance · Walsh v. Spencer
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the proceeds of any foreclosure sale of such property made hereunder to any purchaser other than a taxing unit who is a party to this suit, shall be applied first to the payment of all costs of making the sale and costs of court and then to the payment of the judgment and liens foreclosed herein, and the residue, if any, shall be placed in the registry of the Court in the form of excess proceeds ....”
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.