Withrow v. Schou’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]t is implicit in Rule 8 that an attorney in charge is responsible for notifying the court and opposing counsel of any change in [the attorney's] address immediately and certainly before any address forwarding order has expired.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Marathon Petroleum Co. v. Cherry Moving Co. · Ashworth v. Brzoska

2. “Citing Rule 21a’s provision that notice may be sent to a party’s last known address, the court of appeals held that litigants have a duty “to keep the court and parties apprised of their correct and current address.” Not all courts of appeals appear to agree. But even assuming there is such a duty, unless noncompliance was intentional rather than a mistake, due process requires some lesser sanction than trial without notice or an opportunity to he heard.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ashworth v. Brzoska

3. “>id. Though the Withrow court concluded that the trial court clerk acted reasonably in mailing notice of the trial setting to appellant's counsel of record”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Marathon Petroleum Co. v. Cherry Moving Co.