White v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably McDonald v. Padilla (1948), Kutz Canon Oil & Gas Co. v. Harr (1952)
85 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.
Relationships
Relies on Simmons v. Arnim · Martin v. Robinson, 67 Tex. 368 (Tex. 1887) · Templeton v. Ferguson · Richardson v. Vaughan · Laas v. Seidel
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the record in the cause does not negative the existence of facts authorizing the court to render the judgment, the law conclusively presumes that such facts were established before the court when such judgment was rendered, and evidence dehors the record to the contrary will not be received.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is the general rule that during the period allowed for administration, before heirs as such may maintain a suit to recover property which they claim has descended to them, they must show that no administration is pending and none is necessary. Richardson v. Vaughan, 86 Tex. 93 , 23 S.W. 640 ; Youngs v. Youngs, Tex.Com.App., 26 S.W.2d 191 ; Cyphers v. Birdwell, Tex.Civ.App., 32 S.W.2d 937 ; Laas v. Seidel, 95 Tex. 442 , 67 S. W. 1015 ; Giddings v. Steele, 28 Tex. 732 , 91 Am.Dec. 336; Green v. Rugely, 23 Tex. 539 ; Webster v. Willis, 56 Tex. 468 ; Rogers v. Kennard, 54 Tex. 30 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pike v. Crosby“When a person dies, leaving a lawful will, all of his estate devised or bequeathed by such will, and all powers of appointment granted in such will, shall vest immediately in the devisees or legatees of such estate ... subject to the payment of the debts of the testator....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kelley v. Marlin
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.