Light v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Leyendecker & Associates, Inc. v. Wechter (1984), Austin Nursing Center, Inc. v. Lovato (2005)
2 federal appellate · 32 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont))
Relationships
Relies on Shell Chemical Company v. Lamb · Butler v. Joseph's Wine Shop, Inc. · Gray v. West · Conrad v. Artha Garza Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The capacity addressed in Rule 93(c), Tex.R. Civ. P., is Light’s standing to assert or defend the action before the Court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where findings of fact are filed by the trial court they shall form the basis of the judgment upon all grounds of recovery and of defense embraced therein. The judgment may not be supported upon appeal by a presumption of finding upon any ground of recovery or defense, no element of which has been found by the trial court; but where one or more elements thereof have been found by the trial court, omitted unrequested elements, where supported by evidence, will be supplied by presumption in support of the judgment. Refusal of the court to make a finding requested shall be reviewable on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. Whitman
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.