Patterson v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 1992 · most notably Meshwert v. Meshwert (1977), Sloan v. Passman (1976)
41 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 Matlock v. Matlock · Equitable Building & Loan Ass'n v. Brady · Wigley v. Taylor · McCleskey & Whitman v. Howell Cotton Co. · Matlock v. Matlock
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . We hold, therefore, that when a timely motion is made for an extension of time in which to file a transcript or statement of facts, supported by proof that the clerk of the trial court or the court reporter, as the case may be, could not, after request was made, prepare the part of the record requested in time for filing with the clerk of the court of civil appeals within sixty days after entry of judgment or order overruling the motion for new trial, the court of civil appeals, in deciding the question of ‘good cause’ for the extension, has a duty to decide, in the light of all attendant facts and circumstances, the preliminary question of whether the request for the record was made within a reasonable time after notice of appeal was given”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taft v. Wolma · Pledger v. Ools“In appeal or writ of error the appellant shall file the transcript . . . with the clerk of the Court of Civil Appeals within sixty days from the rendition of the final judgment or order overruling motion for new trial, or perfection of writ of error. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sloan v. Passman
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.