Middleton v. Murff’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Browning v. Placke (1985), Mapco, Inc. v. Forrest (1990)
54 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, 10th District (Waco))
Relationships
Relies on McEwen v. Harrison · Freeman v. Freeman · Deen v. Kirk · Glenn W. Casey Construction, Inc. v. Citizen's National Bank · Middleton v. Murff
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an exception to the Rule 329b(f) requirement of a bill of review in cases where the court rendering the judgment had no “jurisdictional power” to do so. We have defined “jurisdictional power” in this sense to mean “jurisdiction over the subject matter, the power to hear and determine cases of the general class to which the particular one belongs.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We find it unnecessary to decide whether the consent judgment was void or merely voidable. In either instance, a bill of review is the exclusive remedy since the time for an appeal from the ... judgment has expired. The Court of Appeals cites Freeman v. Freeman, 160 Tex. 148 , 327 S.W.2d 428, 433 (1959), and Glenn W. Casey Constr. v. Citizen’s Nat’l Bank, 611 S.W.2d 695, 701 (Tex.Civ.App.-Tyler 1980, no writ) for the proposition that ‘[i]f a judgment rendered by a trial court is void, it may be set aside by that court at any time.’ We disapprove of this statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f a judgment rendered by a trial court is void it may be set aside by that court at any time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re ALHC
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.