Rutledge v. Staner’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
April 2012
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 87th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Renfro Drug Co. v. Lewis · Worford v. Stamper · In the Interest of W.E.R. · State v. Meyer · Lindner v. Hill
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A county road is abandoned when its use has become so infrequent that one or more adjoining property owners have enclosed the road with a fence continuously for at least 20 years. The abandoned road may be reestablished as a public road only in the manner provided for establishing a new road. (b) This section does not apply to: (1) a road to a cemetery; or (2) an access road that is reasonably necessary to reach adjoining real property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Betts v. Reed“(c) Continuance. Even if the party seeking to introduce the evidence or call the witness fails to carry the burden under paragraph (b), the court may grant a continuance or temporarily postpone the trial to allow a response to be made, amended, or supplemented, and to allow opposing parties to conduct discovery regarding any new information presented by that response.”
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.