Sledge v. Alsup’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance v. Ernst & Young (1992), Sullivan v. Bickel & Brewer (1995)
5 federal appellate · 20 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 238th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Willis v. Maverick · Lemos v. Montez · First National Bank of Eagle Pass v. Levine · 664 F. Supp. 1027 - Federal Deposit Insurance v. Eagle Properties, Ltd. · Cook v. Irion
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A cause of action for [professional] malpractice is in the nature of a tort ... Nothing is to be gained in fracturing that cause of action into three or four different claims and sets of special issues. That is not in accordance with the recent trend in this state to simplify issues which are presented to a jury”
6 later decisions 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.