Ronin v. Lerner’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
13 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 334th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Randall's Food Markets, Inc. v. Johnson · Cincinnati Life Insurance Co. v. Cates · Texaco, Inc. v. Pennzoil, Co. · Padilla v. LaFrance
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless otherwise provided in these rules, no agreement between attorneys or parties touching any suit pending will be enforced unless it be in writing, signed and filed with the papers as part of the record, or unless it be made in open court and entered of record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The issue of whether [an] ... agreement fails for lack of essential terms is 'a question of law to be determined by the court, unless there is ambiguity or unless surrounding facts and circumstances demonstrate a factual issue as to an agreement.'”
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.