Exxon Corp. v. Pluff’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
26 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 4th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Texas Ass'n of Business v. Texas Air Control Board · Mayhew v. Town of Sunnyvale · Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. DeLanney · International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union v. Smith · Ltd. v. Williamson County Appraisal District
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e must determine that Pluff had a cause of action for injury to the property- A cause of action accrues when a plaintiff first becomes entitled to file a lawsuit based upon a legal wrong attributed to a defendant. Generally, a cause of action for injury to real property accrues when the injury is committed. The right to sue for the injury is a personal right that belongs to the person who owns the property at the time of the injury. Therefore, without express provision, the right does not pass to a subsequent purchaser of the property. Consequently, a mere subsequent purchaser cannot recover for an injury committed before his purchase.”
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.