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Neagle v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

91
cited by 91 later decisions
4
states following
January 2011
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 2 district · 80 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably Morrison v. Chan (1985), Hardy v. VerMeulen (1987)

5 federal appellate · 2 district · 80 state decisions

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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, 13th District)

Relationships

Relies on Sax v. Votteler · Hawkins v. Safety Casualty Co. · Gaddis v. Smith · Nelson v. Krusen · Government Personnel Mutual Life Insurance v. Wear

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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Notwithstanding any other law, no health care liability claim may be commenced unless the action is filed within two years from the occurrence of the breach or tort or from the date the medical or health care treatment that is the subject of the claim or the hospitalization for which the claim is made is completed....”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Allen v. Tolon · Del Rio v. Jinkins
  2. “[T]o the extent that it purports to cut off an injured person’s right to sue before the person has a reasonable opportunity to discover the “wrong” and bring suit.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Allen v. Tolon · Rascoe v. Anabtawi
  3. “whether the legislature has abolished the 'discovery rule'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Hall v. Dow Corning Corp.

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.