Bocquet v. Herring’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 384 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 391 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Burrow v. Arce (1999), City of Garland v. Dallas Morning News (2000)
5 federal appellate · 384 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, 4th District (San Antonio))
Relationships
Relies on Walker v. Packer · Craddock v. Sunshine Bus Lines, Inc. · Carle v. Carle · Arthur Andersen & Co. v. Perry Equipment Corp. · Beaumont Bank, N.A. v. Buller
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 391 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court may award costs and reasonable and necessary attorney's fees as are equitable and just.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n reviewing an attorney fee award under the [Declaratory Judgments] Act, the court of appeals must determine whether the trial court abused its discretion by awarding fees when there was insufficient evidence that the fees were reasonable and necessary, or when the award was inequitable or unjust.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is an abuse of discretion for a trial court to rule ... without supporting evidence.”
5 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.