Houser v. McElveen’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 2016
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District)
Relationships
Relies on Verburgt v. Dorner · Meshwert v. Meshwert · Hone v. Hanafin · Ramos v. Richardson · Williams v. T.D.C.J.-I.D.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question, then, is whether there is “any plausible statement of circumstance indicating that failure to file within the [specified] period was not deliberate or intentional, but was the result of inadvertence, mistake, or mischance.” Meshwert v. Meshwert, 549 S.W.2d 383, 384 (Tex.1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lockhart v. McCurley
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.