Norton v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2014
10 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 49th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Craddock v. Sunshine Bus Lines, Inc. · Holt Atherton Industries, Inc. v. Heine · Ivy v. Carrell · Strackbein v. Prewitt · Morgan v. Compugraphic Corp.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a meritorious defense, not that it prove one. Id. at 902-03 . Once evidence of a meritorious defense is established, the allegations supporting it must be taken as true in spite of controverting evidence. Id. at 903 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The historical trend in default judgment cases is toward the liberal granting of new trials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Freeman v. Pevehouse
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.