Pullen v. Swanson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Interfirst Bank-Houston, N.A. v. Quintana Petroleum Corp. (1985), Columbia Rio Grande Regional Hospital v. Stover (2000)
26 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 English v. Cobb · Garcia v. Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n · Lucik v. Taylor · Sumaruk v. Todd · Rosemont Enterprises, Inc. v. Lummis
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In those counties where there is a statutory probate court,county court at law, or other statutory court exercising the jurisdiction of a probate court, all applications, petitions and motions regarding probate [and] administrations ... shall be filed and heard in such courts ... rather than the district courts, unless otherwise provided by the legislature....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The [last] sentence [in section 5A(b) ] is a statutory expression of a policy of judicial self-restraint that once the jurisdiction of the statutory probate court has attached and that jurisdiction is adequate to grant the requested relief, the District Court should refrain from exercising its concurrent jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because this lawsuit was “incident to the estate” of J.F. Swanson and probate proceedings had been instituted in Statutory Probate Court Number 2 before this suit had been filed in the district court, the statutory probate court had subject matter jurisdiction over this cause of action.”
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.