Austin v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 1996
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Trimmier v. Carlton · Wortham v. Walker · Harris v. City of Fort Worth · Fitts v. Carpenter · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Taylor
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . .A construction of a legislative act should not be given that would render the act absurd or even meaningless, when a rational, expressive and wholesome meaning may be ascertained from the language used. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Taylor, 54 Tex.Civ.App. 419 , 118 S.W. 1097 , affirmed by Supreme Court, 103 Tex. 367 , 126 S.W. 1117 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We should not give to a statute such a construction as will throw the law into a state of confusion if it can be fairly said that the legislature had expressly or necessarily implied some other purpose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is no provision of law by which the natural parents of a child shall be named as parties to an action for adoption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trotter v. Pollan
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.