Morris v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 278th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on City of Lancaster v. Chambers · Davis v. City of San Antonio · Steele v. City of Houston · Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Brownsville Navigation District · Herring v. Houston National Exchange Bank
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no exception to the doctrine of governmental immunity from suit in cases involving requests for injunctive relief against the State or a state official in his or her official capacity.”). 6 . See Act of June 2, 2003, 78th Leg., R.S., ch. 204, § 23.02(d), 2003 Tex. Gen. Laws 847 , 899. 7 . The former version of section 101.106 provided as follows:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.