Texada v. Spence’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 1997 · most notably Sizeler v. Sizeler (1930), Succession of Franz (1957)
32 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 Succession of Jahraus · Zerega v. Percival · Gauff v. Johnson · State Ex Rel. Peter v. Stanga · Succession of McDermott
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the law is to discourage a man and a woman from living togéther openly as husband and wife without a ceremonial marriage, in the interest of good morals, public order, and the preservation of society. Cole v. Lucas, 2 La.Ann. [946] 952.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Succession of Lannes“must have been exercised upon the testator at the moment the will was executed, not before nor afterwards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reciprocally guilty; otherwise no disability attaches to the donor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Succession of Bacot
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.