34 Tex. Civ. App. 630 - Michael v. Michael’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 1971 · most notably Herron v. Passailaigue (1926), Gallagher v. Gallagher (1919)
49 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not think that a temporary absence from the state or county of an inhabitant of the state during the six months next preceding the filing of his petition for divorce would affect his right to maintain it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fox v. Fox
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.