Adwan v. Adwan’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2009
12 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 Lee v. Lee
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d) Terms of the agreement set forth in the decree may be enforced by all remedies available for enforcement of a judgment, including contempt, but are not enforceable as contract terms unless the agreement so provides.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Except as provided in Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this Section, when a court acquires jurisdiction of a suit affecting the parent-child relationship that court retains continuing jurisdiction of all matters provided for under this subtitle in connection with the child, and no other court has jurisdiction of a suit affecting the parent-child relationship with regard to that child except on transfer as provided in Section 11.06 of this Code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carson v. Korus“‘Suit affecting the parent-child relationship’ means a suit brought under this subtitle in which the appointment of a managing conservator or a possessory conservator, access or to support of a child, or establishment or termination of the parent-child relationship is sought. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Magill v. Sheffield
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.