Houston v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Texas Highway Department v. Weber (1949), State v. Mutual Life Insurance (1910)
36 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Lawton v. Steele · Kidd v. Pearson · Schillinger v. United States · State of Louisiana Elliott v. Jumel
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature shall direct by law in what manner and in what courts suits may be brought against the state.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . this action for the alleged unlawful and tortious action of the officers and agents of the state cannot be maintained against the state, for the simple reason that the legislature has never authorized an action in this court for such misconduct.””
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.