Sablatura v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Ajppellee claims that the Court of Appeals has no jurisdiction to review this case. He contends that the only appeal that a party may prosecute in a case originating in the small claims court is a trial de novo in the county court or county court at law. He bases his contention on Tex.Gov’t Code Ann. § 28.053(d) (Vernon Supp.1988), which provides that “judgment of the county court or county court at law on the appeal is final.” We disagree. Such an interpretation is inconsistent with the grant of appellate jurisdiction to the courts of appeals in Tex.Gov’t Code Ann. § 22.220 (Vernon Supp.1988), as to all civil cases of which district or county courts have jurisdiction “when the amount in controversy or the judgment rendered exceeds $100, exclusive of interest and costs,” and in Tex.Civ.Prac. & Rem.Code § 51.012 (Vernon 1986), to hear appeals or writs of error from final judgments in the county court in civil cases “in which the judgment or amount in controversy exceeds $100, exclusive of interest and costs_””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. Covert