In Re Smith Barney, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably In Re Ford Motor Co. (1998), Owens Corning v. Carter (1999)
27 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 Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Rodriguez De Quijas v. Shearson/American Express, Inc. · Walker v. Packer · Strawbridge v. Curtiss · CSR LTD. v. Link
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a precedent of this Court has direct application in a case, yet appears to rest on reasons rejected in some other line of decisions, the [appellate court] should follow the case which directly controls, leaving to this Court the prerogative of overruling its own decisions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n Phoenix Founders, Inc. v. Marshall , we held that a law firm's hiring opposing counsel's paralegal did not require the firm's disqualification in the litigation if the paralegal was screened from any contact with the case at the firm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“lower court ordinarily should not be said to have abused its discretion in following existing law, even if that law is no longer valid or should be significantly changed.”
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.