Wisdom v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
133 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably In Re King's Estate (1951), In the Interest of J.F.C. (2002)
133 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 Choate v. San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. · Houston & Texas Central Railroad v. Strycharski
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . We must presume that the evidence supports not only the express findings made by the district court but also any omitted findings which are necessary to support the judgment. Wisdom v. Smith, 146 Tex. 420 , 209 S.W.2d 164, 166 (1948); Allied Building Credits, Inc. v. Grogan Bldrs. Sup. Co., 365 S.W.2d 692, 695 (Tex.Civ.App.—Houston 1963, writ ref’d n. r. e.); Burkhart v. Christian, 315 S.W.2d 668, 671 (Tex.Civ.App.—Waco 1958, writ ref'd n. r. e.).””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Doe · Turner v. Day
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.