Fitzpatrick v. Copeland’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Great American Reserve Insurance Co. v. San Antonio Plumbing Supply Co. · El Chico Corp. v. Poole · State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. S.S. · KPMG Peat Marwick v. Harrison County Housing Finance Corp.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly [fell] outside the types of causes in which mental anguish has been held compensable under Texas law”
1 later decision 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.