Roberson v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
174 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably BMC Software Belgium, NV v. Marchand (2002), Holt Atherton Industries, Inc. v. Heine (1992)
174 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 Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio))
Relationships
Relies on Burnett v. Motyka · Seaman v. Seaman · Bishop v. Bishop · Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Jefferson Construction Co. · Buchanan v. Byrd
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a statement of facts is brought forward, [a trial court's] implied findings may be challenged by factual sufficiency and legal sufficiency points the same as jury findings or a trial court's findings of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re SJOBG“In a nonjury trial, where no findings of fact or conclusions of law are filed or requested, it is implied that the trial court made all the necessary findings to support its judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re SJOBG
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.