Bruflat v. Rodeheaver’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Probate Court)
Relationships
Relies on Seay v. Hall · Qwest Microwave, Inc. v. Bedard · Interfirst Bank-Houston, N.A. v. Quintana Petroleum Corp. · Lucik v. Taylor · Carlisle v. Bennett
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“legislature did not intend to expand probate court jurisdiction to matters other than those in which the controlling issue was the settlement, partition, or distribution of an estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether or not the matter is appertaining to or incident to an estate.”
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.