Hendrick v. Voss’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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

1. ““We are unable to agree with appellant. As we have pointed out the facts as we have narrated them are taken for the most part from the testimony of appellant herself. She voluntarily surrendered possession of her child to others. Though she later had a right to withdraw her consent for its adoption, and did so, the question of the best interests of the child with regard to its care and custody .remained a question for the court to decide, though appellant is the mother of the child. Broome v. Edna Gladney Home, Tex.Civ.App., 295 S.W.2d 266 ; Herre v. Morris, Tex.Civ.App., 251 S.W.2d 260 ; Austin v. Collins, Tex.Civ.App., 200 S.W.2d 666 ; Davis v. Sears, Tex.Com.App., 35 S.W.2d 99 ; Legate v. Legate, 87 Tex. 248 , 28 S.W. 281 . This is especially true when, as in this case, others have had the child for some time, and its award to its mother would involve a change in custody. Taylor v. Meek, 154 Tex. 305 , 276 S.W.2d 787 . “Article 2330, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St., defines a neglected and dependent child as ‘ * * * any child under sixteen years of age * * * who is destitute, homeless or abandoned; or who has not proper parental care or guardianship.' The undisputed testimony shows that appellant abandoned the child on August 1, 1957. During the following months the child did not have proper parental care front appellant.” (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Spangler v. Breashears

2. “technical rules of pleading and practice need not be strictly followed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Perkins v. Freeman