47 Tex. Civ. App. 200 - Merrell v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1958 · most notably Anderson & Kerr Drilling Co. v. Bruhlmeyer (1940), Richardson v. McCloskey (1920)
2 federal appellate · 20 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If she [the wife] had not forfeited her share of the community property, she was the absolute owner of one-half of it, and, in the absence of community debts to be paid, she would be entitled to a division and the possession of the same.”
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.