Spears v. Haas’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 2008
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Fourth Court of Appeals · Baker v. Goldsmith · Hanks v. Rosser · Ginsberg v. Fifth Court of Appeals · Peeples v. Honorable Fourth Supreme Judicial District
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are faced with the unique question of whether a petitioner in a bill of review proceeding must establish his prima facie case for the granting of a bill of review before he may proceed with discovery in the portion of the suit to set aside the former judgment which has become final. [W]e believe, as a general rule, discovery is appropriate to the pretrial hearing at which the petitioner must prove his prima facie case for bill of review. However, we do not believe that the general rule encompasses serology testing to determine paternity until after the prima facie case has been established.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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