Hellman v. Mateo’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 281st Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Swilley v. Hughes · Texaco, Inc. v. Pennzoil, Co. · Morrison v. Chan · Nelson v. Krusen
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e [do not] find that appellant [Hellman] expressly raised the fact issue that she could not have discovered the wrong when she learned that she had Hodgkins disease and brought suit within the two year period, in order to raise the constitutionality of article 4590i as applied to her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hellman v. Mateo
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.