Roberts v. West’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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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.

1. “a group of documents which includes not only proposed pleadings but also related factual documents such as e-mails. The pleadings are a set of proposed petitions prepared by Ted Roberts, naming himself as plaintiff and his wife Mary as a defendant along with other third parties. Among the related documents are draft settlement agreements for the proposed defendants.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 403 F. Supp. 2d 568 - Lowe v. Hearst Communications, Inc.

2. “in order to “protect the movant from undue burden, unnecessary expense, harassment, annoyance, or invasion of personal, constitutional, or property rights.” 3 .All court records are presumptively available to the public and may be sealed only pursuant to the conditions of Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 76a. However, not all documents are court records.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lowe v. Hearst Communications, Inc.

3. “Before a trial court decides whether a Rule 76a hearing and order are necessary, it must determine whether the documents in question are 'court records.' "). 2. Whether the Budd Deposition was a "court record”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Biederman v. Brown