Meshwert v. Meshwert’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Texas Instruments, Inc. v. Teletron Energy Management, Inc. (1994), Nguyen Ngoc Giao v. Smith & Lamm, P.C. (1986)
86 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 Craddock v. Sunshine Bus Lines, Inc. · Matlock v. Matlock · Patterson v. Hall · Wigley v. Taylor · Meshwert v. Meshwert
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An extension of time may be granted for late filing in a court of civil appeals of a transcript, statement of facts, motion for rehearing, or application to the supreme court for writ of error, if a motion reasonably explaining the need therefor is filed within fifteen (15) days of the last date for filing as prescribed by the applicable rule or rules." (Emphasis added.)”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“plausible statement of circumstances indicating that failure to file within the [specified] period was not deliberate or intentional, but was the result of inadvertence, mistake or mischance.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The fifteen-day time limit is mandatory; and unless a motion is filed within fifteen days, the court of civil appeals cannot grant leave to file the instruments.”
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.