Trotter v. Pollan’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2007
16 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 Alexander v. Hagedorn · State Ex Rel. Wood v. Deaton · Weir v. Marley · Dunn v. Jackson · Duckworth v. Thompson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where, as here, the father has been awarded custody of child in original divorce proceedings, the mother cannot, during such period, be chargeable with desertion (abandonment). Freeman v. State, 103 Tex.Cr.R. 428 , 280 S.W. 1069 ; Jones v. State, 159 Tex.Cr.R. 18 , 261 S. W.2d 324; Gomez v. State, 163 Tex.Cr.R. 99 , 289 S.W.2d 269 , 73 A.L.R.2d 958 . This rule has been held controlling of adoption cases where the exceptions of art. 46a are sought to be established. Lee v. Purvin, Tex.Civ.App., 285 S.W.2d 405 ; Purvin v. Lee, Tex.Civ.App., 300 S.W.2d 339 ; Ex parte Payne, Tex.Civ. App., 301 S.W.2d 194 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomson v. Meaux
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.