Excel Corp. v. Valdez’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2013
9 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 Walker v. Packer · Cherokee Water Co. v. Forderhause · European Crossroads' Shopping Center, Ltd. v. Criswell · Starnes v. Holloway · Corpus Christi Bank and Trust v. Alice National 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) In any county in which there are two or more district courts, the judges of those courts may, in their discretion, either in termtime or vacation, on motion of any party or on agreement of the parties, or on their own motion, transfer any civil or criminal case or proceeding on their dockets to the docket of one of those other district courts. The judges of those courts may, in their discretion, exchange benches or districts from time to time. (Emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Whenever any pending case is so related to another case pending in or disposed of by another Court that a transfer of the case to such other Court would facilitate orderly and efficient disposition of the litigation, the Judge of the Court in which either case is or was pending may, upon motion and notice, (including his own motion), transfer the case to the Court in which the earlier case ivas filed with consent of the receiving Judge . (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Consolidation. When actions involving a common question of law or fact are pending before the court, it may order a joint hearing or trial of any or all the matters in issue in the actions; it may order all the actions consolidated; and it may make such orders concerning proceedings therein as may tend to avoid unnecessary costs or delay.”
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.