Texas Beef Cattle Co. v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Continental Coffee Products Co. v. Cazarez (1997), Butnaru v. Ford Motor Co. (2002)
12 federal appellate · 97 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, 9th District (Beaumont))
Relationships
Relies on Sisson v. Ruby · Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection · Public Service Commission v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. · Sterner v. Marathon Oil Co. · C. & R. TRANSPORT, INC. v. Campbell
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Whatever a man has a legal right to do, he may do with impunity, regardless of motive, and if in exercising his legal right in a legal way damage results to another, no cause of action arises against him because of a bad motive in exercising the right.’”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the institution or continuation of civil proceedings against the plaintiff; (2) by or at the insistence of the defendant; (3) malice in the commencement of the proceeding; (4) lack of probable cause for the proceeding; (5) termination of the proceeding in plaintiffs favor; and (6) special damages resulting from some physical interference with a party’s person or property in the form of an arrest, attachment, injunction, or sequestration.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“insufficient that a party has suffered the ordinary losses incident to defending a civil suit, such as embarrassment, discovery costs, and attorney's fees.”
2 later decisions 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.