Fox v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1968
15 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 Legate v. Legate · State Ex Rel. Wood v. Deaton · Swift v. Swift · Greenlaw v. Dilworth · Austin v. Collins
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Supreme Court of this state laid down the rule again in the case of Legate v. Legate, 87 Tex. 248 , 28 S.W. 281, 282 , to this effect: ‘Ordinarily, the law presumes that the best interest of the child will be subserved by allowing it to remain in the custody of the parents, no matter how poor and humble they may be, though wealth and worldly advancement may be offered in the home of another.’ “In the case of Futch v. Futch, Tex. Civ.App., 299 S.W. 289 , it is stated the natural affection between a child and its parents constitutes a strong impulse toward good conduct and correct living; it is superior to wealth, honor or power.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kershman v. Kershman
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.