Walker v. Ricks’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
13 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 275th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Garza v. Alviar · Pool v. Ford Motor Co. · Sterner v. Marathon Oil Co. · Plas-Tex, Inc. v. U.S. Steel Corp. · McGalliard v. Kuhlmann
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Unless a controverting affidavit is filed as provided by this section, an affidavit that the amount a person charged for a service was reasonable at the time and place that the service was provided and that the service was necessary is sufficient evidence to support a finding of fact by judge or jury that the amount charged was reasonable or that the service was necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Mendez
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.