Porter v. Vick’s Empirical Analysis

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19 state decisions

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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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “All parties concede that Judge Vick signed the order vacating the order granting new trial long past the time for plenary power over the judgment, as measured from the date the judgment was signed. See, e.g., Tex.R. Civ. P. 329b. [The plaintiffs] seek mandamus relief from this last order, contending it is void under Fulton v. Finch, 162 Tex. 351 , 346 S.W.2d 823, 826 (1961), in which this court held that any order vacating an order granting a new trial which was signed outside the court’s period of plenary power over the original judgment is void. We sustain their contention. We did not substantively modify the Fulton v. Finch rule in Fruehauf Corp. v. Carrillo, 848 S.W.2d 83 (Tex.1993), but merely clarified that the trial court could vacate, or “ungrant,” the new trial grant within the plenary power period.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Baylor Medical Center at Garland