Ex Parte Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1975
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 State v. Quintana Petroleum Co. · Knollhoff v. Norris · Lakey v. McCarroll · McAfee v. McAfee · Wilson v. Wilson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The statute (Article 4639a, Vernon’s Annotated Texas Statutes) has been clearly and frequently held to mean that once divorce has been granted and child custody awarded, the judgment is final in that respect, and any reopening or application to change or modify the custody is a new and independent action * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rector v. Rector
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.