Hebert v. Loveless’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2005
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 McKisson v. Sales Affiliates, Inc. · 68 Tex. Crim. 295 - Burford v. State · Henry v. Phillips · Texas Co. v. Lee · Darryl v. Ford Motor Company
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.
““Dean Keeton in his article 'Products Liability-Liability Without Fault and the Requirement of a Defect’, 41 Texas L.Rev. 855 , 858 (1963) says: “ ‘The principle of strict liability has been regarded as applicable only when the product leaves the manufacturer’s hands in a defective condition....”’ (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Such incompetent [hearsay] evidence can never form the basis of a finding of fact or of the judgment of a court; and this is so whether it be objected to or not. Henry v. Phillips, 105 Tex. 459 , 151 S.W. 533 ; Austin Bros. v. Patten, Tex.Com.App., 294 S.W. 537 ; 17 Tex.Jur., p. 512, § 211.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Wright“Texas is firmly committed to the rule stated in the Restatement of Torts (2d Ed.), § 402 A”
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.