Deen v. Kirk’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Rusk State Hospital v. Black (2012), Brown v. McLennan County Children's Protective Services (1982)
48 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 McEwen v. Harrison · Flynt v. City of Kingsville · Whitney v. L & L REALTY CORPORATION · Brown v. Clippinger · McAnelly v. Ward Bros.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the time for filing a motion for new trial has expired and relief may not be obtained by appeal, a proceeding in the nature of a bill of review is the exclusive method of vacating a default judgment rendered in a case in which the court had jurisdictional power to render it.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“jurisdiction over the subject matter, the power to hear and determine cases of the general class to which the particular one belongs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re ALHC
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.