In Re Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 150th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Walker v. Packer · Continental Coffee Products Co. v. Cazarez · Woodward v. Ortiz · Casualty Underwriters v. Rhone · Wadewitz v. Montgomery
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If within twenty days after the judgment or other appealable order is signed, a party adversely affected by it or his attorney has neither received the notice required by paragraph (3) of this rule nor acquired actual knowledge of the order, then with respect to that party all the periods [concerning the trial court's plenary jurisdiction] mentioned in paragraph (1) shall begin on the date that such party or his attorney received such notice or acquired actual knowledge of the signing, whichever occurred first....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Montemayor
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.