Varner v. Cardenas’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Intercontinental Group Partnership v. KB Home Lone Star L.P. (2009), 7979 Airport Garage, L.L.C. v. Dollar Rent a Car Systems, Inc. (2007)
25 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 Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo))
Relationships
Relies on Tony Gullo Motors I, L.P. and Brien Garcia v. Nury Chapa · HOLY CROSS CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST v. Wolf · International Security Life Insurance Co. v. Spray · Cardenas v. Varner
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“change Texas procedure to allow post-judgment fees to be determined after appeal by remand to the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Lesikar“We decline the invitation to allow two trials on attorneys' fees when one will do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Lesikar
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.