Exxon Corp. v. Garza’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2011
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 229th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on North East Independent School District v. Aldridge · Associated Indemnity Corp. v. CAT Contracting, Inc. · Keetch v. Kroger Co. · Redinger v. Living, Inc. · Mafrige v. Ross
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.
“Because our supreme court has repeatedly `decline[d] to eliminate all distinction between premises conditions and negligent activities,' id., we must determine whether [Laurel's] injuries resulted from a condition or an activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laurel v. Herschap
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.