Leonard v. Eskew’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Joe v. Two Thirty Nine Joint Venture (2004), Arabian Shield Development Co. v. Hunt (1991)
3 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Sherman v. Sipper · Mooney v. Harlin · Owen v. King · Hexter v. Pratt · Estate of Stonecipher v. Estate of Butts
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“construe the judgment itself and any attendant findings of fact and conclusions of law in a way that sustains the judgment” and assuming "the trial court determined favorably to the judgment any omitted findings of fact or conclusions of law necessary to the relief ordered”). 12 . We also recognize that in other contexts, the elements of laches under Texas law are “(1) unreasonable delay by one having legal or equitable rights in asserting them, and (2) a good faith change of position by another to his detriment because of the delay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[BJecause the trial-court judgment rests upon the specific grounds set out in the findings of fact and conclusions of law that accompany the judgment, we are not permitted to assume omitted findings or conclusions necessary to any other grounds for the judgment, even though such other grounds be pleaded in the case.”); First Realty Bank & Trust v. Youngkin, 568 S.W.2d 428, 431 (Tex.Civ.App.-Eastland 1978, no writ) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Smith“construe the judgment itself and any attendant findings of fact and conclusions of law in a way that sustains the judgment” and assuming”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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