Fuentes v. McFadden’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Leon Ltd. v. Albuquerque Commons Partnership (1993), McCulley Fine Arts Gallery, Inc. v. "X" Partners (1993)
31 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 34th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on In Re King's Estate · Garza v. Alviar · Downer v. Aquamarine Operators, Inc. · Brown v. United States · Benoit v. Wilson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“• is within the jurisdiction of the court; • is not, at the time of filing the answer, the subject of a pending action; • is mature and owned by the pleader at the time of filing the answer; • arises out of the transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter of the opposing party’s claim; • is against an opposing party in the same capacity; and • does not require for its adjudication the presence of third parties over whom the court cannot acquire jurisdiction.”
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.