Phillips v. Bramlett’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2021
1 federal appellate · 9 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.
Relationships
Relies on In Re King's Estate · City of Keller v. Wilson · Transportation Insurance Co. v. Moriel · Glover v. Texas General Indemnity Co. · McGalliard v. Kuhlmann
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In an action on a health care liability claim where final judgment is rendered against a physician or health care provider, the limit of civil liability for damages of the physician or health care provider shall be limited to an amount not to exceed $500,000.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. Bramlett“This section shall not limit the liability of any insurer where facts exist that would enable a party to invoke the common law theory of recovery commonly known in Texas as the "Stowers Doctrine."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. Bramlett“[t]his intent is most evident in the discussion of how the `Stowers Doctrine' encourages insurers to bargain in good faith during the negotiation phase of a medical malpractice case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. Bramlett
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.