Ex Parte Swate’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Maiz v. Virani (2002), In Re Henry (2005)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Beaumont Bank, N.A. v. Buller · Ex Parte Barnett · Wallace v. Briggs · Ex Parte Gordon · Austin Independent School District v. Sierra Club
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A turnover statute is not a substitute for established remedies allowing a creditor to reach property owned by the judgment debtor claimed to be in the possession of a stranger to the lawsuit. A creditor may seek garnishment against third parties or join them in a suit against the debtor, and if successful, obtain a turnover order against the third party. However, a creditor may not seek a turnover order against third parties without other initial proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“). See Beaumont Bank, N.A. v. Buller , 806 S.W.2d 223 , 227 (Tex. 1991) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a shortcut to bypass proceedings that afford third parties due process,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.