02 · From courtroom to outcome

Division → procedural posture → ruling

Every published opinion traces a single path. It enters at one of the five operational divisions (1st · Dallas, 3d · Austin, 4th · San Antonio, 8th · Fort Worth, 11th · Houston), encounters a specific procedural posture (motion to remandi, plea to the jurisdictioni, Rule 91ai, summary judgmenti), and exits with a ruling. Stream width tracks opinion volume; stream color encodes the ruling category.

What to look for

The corpus's largest single posture-disposition concentration: 19 of 30 remand-posturedi opinions (66%) resulted in the canonical disposition granted. Grants outnumber denials at remand by a wider margin than at any other posture in the corpus. Click any stream to filter the matrix below.

Streams thinner than two opinions are dimmed for legibility. Rare postures and rulings are grouped under "Other".