Logan v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably De Ayala v. MacKie (2006), Hernandez v. Ebrom (2009)
2 federal appellate · 20 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Probate Court)
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Swilley v. Hughes · Barr v. Resolution Trust Corp. Ex Rel. Sunbelt Federal Savings · Rogers v. Ricane Enterprises, Inc. · Eagle Properties, Ltd. v. Scharbauer
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is an express statute, such as the one for the complete heirship judgment, declaring the phase of the probate proceedings to be final and appealable, that statute controls. Otherwise, if there is a proceeding of which the order in question may logically be considered a part, but one or more pleadings also part of that proceeding raise issues or parties not disposed of, then the probate order is interlocutory.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the need to review 'controlling, intermediate decisions before an error can harm later phases of the proceeding'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“concluded a discrete phase of the guardianship proceeding”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re TLS
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.