Levit v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2018
5 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 280th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Peralta v. Heights Medical Center, Inc. · Alexander v. Hagedorn · Baker v. Goldsmith · General Electric Co. v. Falcon Ridge Apartments, Joint Venture
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all the periods mentioned in paragraph (1) shall begin on the date that such party or his attorney received such notice or acquired actual knowledge of the signing, whichever occurred first, but in no event shall such periods begin more than ninety days after the original judgment or other appealable order was signed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Levit v. Adams“not subject to reasonable dispute in that it is either (1) generally known within the territorial jurisdiction of the trial court or (2) capable of accurate and ready determination by resort to sources whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re ACS“personal knowledge is not judicial knowledge, and a judge may personally know a fact of which he cannot take judicial knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re ACS
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.