Wallerstein v. Spirt’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 53rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Coker v. Coker · Swilley v. Hughes · National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh v. CBI Industries, Inc. · Natividad v. Alexsis, Inc.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rather, [the provision] obligates the indemnitor to protect the indemnitee against claims brought by persons not a party to the provision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ganske v. Spence
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.