Hartmann v. Solbrig’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 216th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Havner · Sterner v. Marathon Oil Co. · Martinez v. Dobra · Stewart Title Guaranty Co. v. Sterling · Victoria Bank & Trust Co. v. Brady
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a plaintiff seeks to recover attorney’s fees in cases where there are multiple defendants, and one or more of those defendants ' have made settle ments, the plaintiff must segregate the fees owed by the remaining defendants from those owed by the settling defendants so that the remaining defendants are not charged fees for which they are not responsible.”
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.