Hall v. Lawlis’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2011
23 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, 9th District (Beaumont))
Relationships
Relies on Walker v. Packer · Crane v. Tunks · Abor v. Black · Maresca v. Marks · Hooks v. Fourth Court of Appeals
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Income tax returns are discoverable to the extent they are relevant and material to the issues presented in the lawsuit. Maresca v. Marks, 362 S.W.2d 299, 300-01 (Tex.1962) [(orig.proceeding)]; Crane v. Tunks, 160 Tex. 182 , 328 S.W.2d 434, 440 (1959) [ (orig.proceeding) ], disapproved in part on other grounds by Walker v. Packer, 827 S.W.2d 833, 842 (Tex.1992). We have, however, expressed our “reluctance to allow uncontrolled and unnecessary discovery of federal income tax returns.” Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Ramirez, 824 S.W.2d 558, 559 (Tex.1992) [ (orig.proceeding)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olinger v. Curry“by issuing conflicting orders or injunctions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perry v. Del Rio
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.