Hjalmarson v. Langley’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2013
12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Van Winkle · Eichelberger v. Eichelberger · Hoodless v. Winter · BHP Petroleum Co., Inc. v. Millard · Greenberg v. Brookshire
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court has no more power to act in sanction matters without jurisdiction than it does elsewhere. What is most troubling about the decision in Wolma is that it cannot be squared with established legal principles relating to jurisdiction. A court must have jurisdiction to act or its acts are void. [[Image here]] A court loses jurisdiction of a cause once its plenary power expires.... A court cannot lose jurisdiction of a cause and yet still retain jurisdiction to act in that same cause. [[Image here]] Texas recognizes inherent judicial pow-er_ However, a court’s inherent judicial power does not confer jurisdiction where none pre-exists by statutory or constitutional grant.”
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.