Reynolds v. Kessler’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Lindsey v. Lindsey (1998), Hill v. Heritage Resources, Inc. (1998)
30 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 205th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1962 · 28 U.S.C. § 1963 · 28 U.S.C. § 2508
Relies on Garza v. Alviar · Swanson v. Swanson · Freeman v. Texas Compensation Insurance Co. · Electra Independent School Dist. v. W. T. Waggoner Estate · Rhea v. Smith
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judgment lien is created only by compliance with the lien creation statutes. When the abstract is so improperly recorded and indexed that it creates no lien, even actual notice of the defective record cannot take the place of a proper record as to the purchaser of the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Recording judgments,” in pertinent part provided: Each county clerk shall keep a well bound book called the”
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.