Jamar v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Verburgt v. Dorner (1998), Quanaim v. Frasco Restaurant & Catering (2000)
44 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, 14th District (Houston))
Relationships
Relies on Pool v. Ford Motor Co. · Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Christy Jean Wand LaCoke · McRoberts v. Ryals · Mr. Penguin Tuxedo Rental & Sales, Inc. v. NCR Corp. · Biffle v. Morton Rubber Industries, 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Rule 329b(a) concerning the time for filing a motion for new trial] does not define “filed.” It is our policy to construe rules reasonably but liberally, when possible, so that the right to appeal is not lost by creating a requirement not absolutely necessary from the literal words of the rule.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] document is filed 'when it is tendered to the clerk, or otherwise put under the custody or control of the clerk.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Lewis · Biederman v. Brown“The filing is not completed until the fee is paid, and absent emergency or other rare circumstances, the court should not consider it before then.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re CAS
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.