Ford Motor Co. v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Roberts v. Williamson (2003), Fernandez v. Walgreen Hastings Co. (1998)
42 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, 6th District (Texarkana))
Relationships
Relies on Transportation Insurance Co. v. Moriel · American Tobacco Co., Inc. v. Grinnell · 2 Cal. 4th 1064 - Burgess v. Superior Court · Castleberry v. Branscum · Masaki v. General Motors Corp.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`venue against a corporation may be predicated upon the presence in a county of either an agencya more or less regular and permanent business operationor a representative with broad powers to act for the corporation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile we are not bound by the Legislature's policy decisions when we consider protections afforded by the common law, 'the boundaries the Legislature has drawn do inform our decision.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it would be anomalous to recognize a cause of action for loss of consortium for a severe injury to a loved one when there is no recovery for the death of that same family member.”
1 later decision 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.