McElreath v. McElreath’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Eichelberger v. Eichelberger (1979), Cameron v. Cameron (1982)
13 federal appellate · 107 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 Milliken v. Meyer · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Fauntleroy v. Lum · Sarah Fall v. Elizabeth Eastin · Loucks v. . Standard Oil Co.
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Comity, in the absence of a controlling decision by the United States Supreme Court under the “Full Faith and Credit” clause, seems the preferable basis for a state court decision. In that way there is no danger of restricting the scope of state public policy by a prediction of what the United States Supreme Court may hold in any given situation. Our holding therefore is that as a matter of comity we will enforce the equitable decrees of a sister state affecting Texas land so long as such enforcement does not contravene an established public policy in this State.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The court pronouncing a decree of divorce shall also decree and order a division of the estate of the parties in such a way as the court shall deem just and right, having due regard to the rights of each party and their children, if any. Nothing herein shall be construed to compel either party to divest himself or herself of the title to real estate.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““This article and the chapter of which it is a part apply only to Texas courts pronouncing decrees of divorce in suits involving Texas residents. Our community property system naturally affects our plan of property division upon a marriage dissolution. Under our laws, permanent alimony is not recognized, nor is a Texas court authorized to divest either spouse of his or her title to separate property, Hailey v. Hailey [160 Tex.Sup. 372], 331 S.W.2d 299 , but the wife, in the main, must look to the community property for her share of the material gains incident to an ill-starred marriage.””
3 later decisions 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.