Morris v. UMBERSON’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 269th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Ogletree v. Matthews · Gardner v. U.S. Imaging, Inc. · University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston v. Gutierrez · Badiga v. Lopez · Bogar v. Esparza
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he triggering event in Gardner for the tolling of the statutory period was not the granting of the default judgment, but rather the defendant’s failure to timely answer. The tolling ended in Gardner when the facility answered, not when the default judgment was set aside. That the trial court had granted a default judgment was not dispositive to the supreme court’s holding.”
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.