Randell v. Randell’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1976
4 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 Ex Parte Winfield Scott · Aucutt v. Aucutt · Aucutt v. Aucutt · Fielder v. Parker
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not reasonable to suppose that the Legislature in enacting the general venue statute, Article 1995, or the Supreme Court in promulgating the rules of procedure pertaining thereto, was forgetful of the mandatory requirements of Article 4631. * * * Article 4631 is a particular statute pertaining to divorce suits. ‘In case of conflict between a general provision and a special provision dealing with the same subject, the former is controlled or limited by the latter; and this is so whether the provisions in question are contained in the same act or in different enactments.’ 39 Tex.Jur. 212.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKinney v. McKinney“Suits for divorce shall be brought in the county in which the plaintiff shall have resided for six months next preceding the bringing of the suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lutes v. Lutes
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.