Rizk v. Mayad’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Caldwell v. Barnes (1998), Villarreal v. San Antonio Truck & Equipment (1999)
59 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 Alexander v. Hagedorn · McEwen v. Harrison · Baker v. Goldsmith · Benson v. Wanda Petroleum Company · Hanks v. Rosser
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Just as a bill of review may not be used when one neglects to urge a motion for new trial or appeal when he has time to do so, a bill of review may not be used as an additional remedy after one has timely filed a motion to reinstate and a motion for new trial and has made a timely but unsuccessful appeal. Rizk, 603 S.W.2d at 776 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hicks v. Armstrong
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.