33 Tex. Civ. App. 638 - Flannery v. Chidgey’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1936
12 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authority so granted is strictly construed, and no appeal to the equitable powers of a court can be made to bind the wife by her contracts not executed under the provisions of the statute. Magee v. White, 23 Tex. 180 ; Haynes v. Stovall, 23 Tex. 625 . The necessaries named in the statute are those for the married woman and her children, and not for her husband.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Petersen v. Berry
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.