Cooper v. Cochran’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 192nd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on City of Keller v. Wilson · Formosa Plastics Corp. USA v. Presidio Engineers and Contractors, Inc. · Croucher v. Croucher · Tony Gullo Motors I, L.P. and Brien Garcia v. Nury Chapa · Spoljaric v. Percival Tours, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“party asserting an affirmative defense [including limitations] in a trial before the court must request findings in support of the defense to avoid waiver” and, if the court's findings do not include any of the elements of the defense,”
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.