State v. San Miguel’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2017
8 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 333rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Montgomery v. Kennedy · State Department of Highways & Public Transportation v. Payne · City of Brownsville v. Alvarado · C. & R. TRANSPORT, INC. v. Campbell · Lowe v. Texas Tech University
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that [the defendant] had actual or constructive knowledge of some condition on .the premises; (2) that the condition posed an unreasonable risk of harm to [the plaintiff]; (3) that [the. defendant] did not exercise reasonable care to reduce or to eliminate the risk; and (4) that [the defendant’s] failure to use such care proximately caused [the plaintiffs] personal injuries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the choice between a negligence and premises defect charge turns solely on whether the injury results from a contemporaneous human act or a condition of property”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“caused by a condition or use of tangible personal or real property,”
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.