Barnett v. Barnett’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1992
8 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 Skillern & Sons, Inc. v. Rosen · Groulx v. Groulx · PEOPLES NAT'L BANK OF G'VILLE v. Manos Bros., Inc. · Esparza v. Esparza · Clark v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a couple, after the birth of a child in wedlock, would not be heard to say that they have had no connection and their offspring is spurious.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he rule has survived nearly two centuries of criticism by the scholars and legal writers on the subject and is firmly embedded in the jurisprudence of Texas. We will leave to the scholars any further assaults upon the rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Davis
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.