Murray v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2017
14 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 Ex Parte Claude D. Birkhead · Mobley v. Mobley · Brady v. Hyman · 147 Tex. Crim. 15 - Pierson v. State · Townsend v. Townsend
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even if we were to interpret [section 30.002(a)’s predecessor] as merely directory, not mandatory, we would nevertheless be bound to sustain appellant’s [contention that error is remediable], For such [a contrary] interpretation would mean that appellant, through no fault of her own, would be denied the [findings] to which she was entitled under Rules 296 and 297, T.R.C.P.”). . See, e.g., Larry F. Smith, 110 S.W.3d at 616 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.