Beck v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2016
23 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, 3rd District (Austin))
Relationships
Relies on Peralta v. Heights Medical Center, Inc. · Massey v. Armco Steel Co. · Texas Department of Corrections v. Herring · Baker v. Goldsmith · Hanks v. Rosser
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The flaw in this approach is that the court of appeals treated the pre-trial hearing concerning only the issue of [petitioner’s] meritorious defense as a summary judgment hearing on all elements of [the] petition for bill of review. Such review would be erroneous even if [the defendant] had filed a motion for summary judgment, because no summary judgment record was developed and it is improper to use summary judgment to determine whether pleadings fail to state a cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order to assure that valuable court time is not wasted by conducting a spurious "full-blown” examination of the merits, we directed that the petitioner be required to present pri-ma facie proof of a meritorious defense as a pretrial matter. After a prima facie showing, the trial court then conducts a trial on the remaining elements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDaniel v. Hale
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.