Hock v. Salaices’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 25th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Gulbenkian v. Penn · Knox v. Long · Jackson v. Hernandez · Investors Diversified Services, Inc. v. Bruner · Smith v. Lippmann
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gone to great lengths to excuse defects in answers to prevent the entry of default judgments against parties who have made some attempt, albeit deficient, unconventional, or flat out forbidden under the Rules of Civil Procedure, to acknowledge that they have received notice of the lawsuit pending against them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.