McIntyre v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 182 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin))
Relationships
Relies on Rhone-Poulenc, Inc. v. Steel · Fitzgerald v. Advanced Spine Fixation Systems, Inc. · Gammill v. Jack Williams Chevrolet, Inc. · State Ex Rel. State Department of Highways & Public Transportation v. Gonzalez · National Liability & Fire Insurance Co. v. Allen
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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not to second-guess the policy choices that inform our statutes or to weigh the effectiveness of their results; rather, [the court's] task is to interpret those statutes in a manner that effectuates the Legislature's intent”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[O]ne provision will not be given a meaning out of harmony or inconsistent with other provisions, although it might be susceptible of such a construction if standing alone.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] conclusory statement [in an affidavit] of an expert witness is insufficient to create a question of fact to defeat summary judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.