Levy v. Roper’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Caldwell v. Barnes (1998), Pure Oil Co. v. Reece (1935)
10 federal appellate · 121 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hopkins v. Cain
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The necessity for maintaining rights acquired on the faith of apparently valid judgments of domestic courts of general jurisdiction has led to the rule, now firmly established in Texas, that whenever such judgments are collaterally assailed their jurisdictional recitals are not open to attack but import absolute verity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robins v. Sandford
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.