Roberts v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently July 1996 · most notably Wallace v. Briggs (1961), Schwartz v. Jacob (1965)
57 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 Gonzales v. Gonzales · 58 Tex. Civ. App. 595 - Varn v. Varn · Kelly v. Gross
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the judgment in this case awards the attorneys’ fees to appellee, we think, under the facts, that it was fully binding on her attorneys. As her attorneys, they signed her answer alleging that appellant was liable to appellee and to them for reasonable attorneys’ fees and praying that judgment be entered in their behalf for such fees. They participated in the trial and suffered a judgment to be entered awarding the fees to appellee. Consequently, they were as much bound by it as if they had been parties to the suit. Perkins v. Terrell, Tex.Civ.App., 214 S.W. 551 (error refused); Olive-Sternenberg Lbr. Co. v. Gordon, 138 Tex. 459 , 159 S.W.2d 845 ; Ex parte Foster, 144 Tex. 65 , 188 S.W. 2d 382 .””
2 later decisions 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.