Lawrence v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2016
14 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 71st Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Gibbs v. General Motors Corporation · Alexander v. Hagedorn · Woods v. William M. Mercer, 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“• a meritorious defense to the cause of action alleged to support the judgment, • which fraud, accident, or the opposing party’s wrongful act prevented him from presenting, • without any fault or negligence of his own.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chandler v. Chandler
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.