Preble v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 2018
1 district · 1 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 113th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Rogers v. Ricane Enterprises, Inc. · Hart v. Van Zandt · Anderson v. Snider · Hicks v. Humble Oil and Refining Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In an assault and battery case, if the defendant establishes the lack of physical contact, then he successfully eliminates an essential element of the cause of action.”
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.