Shepherd v. Ledford’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Austin Nursing Center, Inc. v. Lovato (2005), In Re Labatt Food Service, L.P. (2009)
3 federal appellate · 81 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, 2nd District (Fort Worth))
Relationships
Relies on Goode v. Shoukfeh · Rose v. Doctors Hospital · Compton v. Henrie · Brown v. Edwards Transfer Co., Inc. · Pitner v. United States
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A stipulation is an agreement, admission, or concession made in a judicial proceeding by the parties or their attorneys respecting some matter incident thereto.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unlike the situation in Shepherd, ... Stewart was not the only beneficiary of Mrs. Stewart’s estate. In Shepherd, an administration was not necessary as a matter of law because the surviving spouse was the only heir of the estate and there was evidence that the family had resolved the estate’s disposition. There is no such evidence in this case. Stewart ... did not prove that no administration of Mrs. Stewart’s estate was pending and that none was necessary. The parties stipulated that the estate had debts at the time of Mrs. Stewart’s death. Further, there is no stipulation that the family had reached an agreement as-to the disposition of the estate. Thus, an administration 'was necessary in this case, and the proper party to bring suit on behalf of the estate was the estate’s personal representative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Notwithstanding any other law, no health care liability claim may be commenced unless the action is filed within two years from the occurrence of the breach or tort or from the date the medical or health care treatment that is the subject of the claim or the hospitalization for which the claim is made is completed....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright v. Fowler
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.