Henthorn v. Tyler’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Without reviewing all the authorities, since such authorities have been adequately discussed in some of the decisions herein cited, it is apparent that the rulings of the Supreme Court, and such Courts of Civil Appeals as have ruled on facts similar to those here in issue, have not upheld the validity of a judgment for child custody where the domicile and actual residence of the child and of the parent holding his custody was outside the state where judgment of custody was rendered, such persons were not personally present before the court and the parent was not duly in court either by personal service or appearance. Wicks v. Cox, supra; [ 146 Tex. 489 , 208 S.W.2d 876 ]; Worden v. Worden, 148 Tex. 356 , 224 S.W.2d 187 ; Avenier v. Avenier, Tex.Civ.App., 216 S.W.2d 638 ; Campbell v. Stover, 101 Tex. 82 , 104 S.W. 1046 ; Peacock v. Bradshaw, supra [ 145 Tex. 68 , 194 S.W.2d 551 ]; Goldsmith v. Salkey, 131 Tex. 139 , 112 S.W.2d 165 , 116 A.L.R. 1293 ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fletcher v. Fletcher