Havlen v. McDougall’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Texas Department of Transportation v. Needham (2002), Rogers v. City of Fort Worth (2002)
47 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, 4th District (San Antonio))
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Mansell v. Mansell · Gaines v. Hamman
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and the [movant] is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because the parties do not dispute the relevant facts, this is a proper case for summary judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.