Matthiessen v. Schaefer’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 225th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on In Re King's Estate · Kindred v. Con/Chem, Inc. · Willis v. Maverick · S.V. v. R.V. · HECI Exploration Co. v. Neel
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he discovery rule applies to [a] claim of negligent misrepresentation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.