Tunnell v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 1973 · most notably Ex Parte Eaton (1952), Mitchell v. Davis (1947)
29 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 Legate v. Legate · State Ex Rel. Wood v. Deaton · Choate v. San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. · Tweed v. Western Union Telegraph Company · Houston & Texas Central Railroad v. Strycharski
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The writ of habeas corpus is used in this state as a form of procedure for the purpose of litigating questions as to the proper custody of children and ascertaining what would be to the best interest of the child, to society and to the state, and is addressed to the equity powers of the court, and the power is given to the courts to make the change as a remedial right. The trial judge sits as a court of chancery, exercising broad equitable power, and the rules regulating the exercise of that power are and should be liberally construed. He should hear all legitimate testimony bearing upon the question, unhampered by narrow technical rules." Tunnel v. Reeves , Texas, 35 S.W.2d 707, 709 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.