Bonilla v. Roberson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2019
2 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 Goswami v. Metropolitan Savings & Loan Ass'n · Sonny Arnold, Inc. v. Sentry Savings Ass'n · Hammonds v. Holmes · Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. v. Nueces County · Winters v. Slover
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power of the trustee to sell the deed for the parties is derived wholly from the trust instrument. Winters v. Slover, 151 Tex. 485 , 251 S.W.2d 726, 728 (1952). Because a power of sale under a deed of trust is a harsh method of collecting debts and of disposing of another’s property, it can only be exercised by strict compliance with the note and conditions of sale. Crow v. Heath, 516 S.W.2d 225, 228 (Tex. Civ.App. —Corpus Christi 1974, writ ref d n.r.e.). Thus, a trustee must strictly pursue the terms of the instrument, the provisions of law relative to such a sale, and the details prescribed as to the manner of the sale. See Durkay v. Madco Oil Co., 862 S.W.2d 14, 17 (Tex.App.—Corpus Christi 1993, writ denied); Randolph v. Citizens Nat’l Bank, 141 S.W.2d 1030, 1032 (Tex.Civ.App.—Amarillo 1940, writ dism’d judgm’t cor.).”
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.