Braden v. Downey’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably TransAmerican Natural Gas Corp. v. Powell (1991), Chrysler Corp. v. Honorable Robert Blackmon (1992)
103 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, 14th District (Houston))
Relationships
Relies on Thomas v. Capital Security Services, Inc. · TransAmerican Natural Gas Corp. v. Powell · West v. Solito · Bodnow Corp. v. City of Hondo · Street v. Second Court of Appeals
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) provide that the sanction is payable only at a date that coincides with or follows entry of a final order terminating the litigation; or (2) make express written findings, after a prompt hearing, as to why the award does not have such a preclusive effect.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exclusion of essential evidence” because, such a sanction had the effect of "adjudicating claims or defenses, not on their merits, but on the manner in which a party or his attorney has conducted discovery”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it would soon cease to be an extraordinary writ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.