Smith v. Lippmann’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. v. Abbott (1993), In the Interest of Brilliant (2002)
1 federal appellate · 35 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, 9th District (Beaumont))
Relationships
Relies on Terehkov v. Cruz · Santex Roofing & Sheet Metal, Inc. v. Venture Steel, 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Texas courts have always been reluctant to uphold a default judgment without notice where some response from the defendant is found in the record”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of an answer, it nevertheless gave the court a timely response acknowledging receipt and acceptance of appellees' citation and petition. See Smith v. Lippmann, 826 S.W.2d 137, 138 (Tex. 1992); see also Santex Roofing Sheet Metal, Inc. v. Venture Steel, Inc., 737 S.W.2d 55, 56 (Tex.App.-San Antonio 1987, no writ) (holding that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re KBA“This correspondence certifies that I (Gilbert Smith) have received and signed for the citation for case number 43,846, Rae Lippmann v. Gilbert Smith, issued by the Honorable District Court 75th Judicial District of Libert (sic) County, Texas at the Court House of said County in Liberty, Texas on the 31st day of March of 1989.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ibrahim v. Young
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.