Clark v. Yarbrough’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2018
15 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 102nd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Bevil v. Johnson · Mansfield State Bank v. Cohn · State v. Rotello · Rizk v. Mayad · Ozuna v. Southwest Bio-Clinical Laboratories
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial court's denial of a reinstatement motion is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, and a reviewing court will not disturb it absent a showing of abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ransom v. Gibson“Whether the party's conduct was intentional or the result of conscious indifference is a question of fact to be determined by the trial court in its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ransom v. Gibson
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.