Rimbow v. Rimbow’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1985
5 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 McGuinness v. Superior Court · Clonts v. Johnson · Cheely v. Clayton · Kirschner v. Dietrich · 20 Cal. 2d 382 - Raps v. Raps
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellants’ reiterated contention upon this feature is . “the court had no authority to retry a divorce suit after the death of the plaintiff under Rule 329, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure.” The quoted statement could be conceded to be correct, without altering the holding that the court in this instance and under the “Motion for New Trial,” as described, did have the authority upon its unchallenged findings on the facts that the divorce had been procured by fraud, even upon the court itself, to declare that it was void; and there being property rights at issue, as well as the marital status of the women involved, to further determine the re- suiting effects upon them and the property. Id. at 91.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. Powell
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.