Eggemeyer v. Eggemeyer’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 155 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Worford v. Stamper (1991), Twyman v. Twyman (1993)
6 federal appellate · 155 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 Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Thompson v. Consolidated Gas Utilities Corp. · Hedtke v. Hedtke · Arnold v. Leonard · Hailey v. Hailey
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No citizen of this State shall be deprived of life, liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or in any manner disfranchised, except by the due course of the law of the land.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the phrase “estate of the parties,” as employed in section 3.63 of the Family Code refers only to the community property of the parties and prohibits the division of separate property; (2) a division of the separate property of one spouse would create a form of separate property not provided for in article XVI, section 15 of the Texas Constitution; (3) a division of the separate property of one spouse is a taking of property not justified by any public benefit, and deprives that spouse of his property without due process in violation of article I, section 19 of the Texas Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“as fundamental, natural, inherent, inalienable, not derived from the legislature and as pre-existing even constitutions.”
2 later decisions 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.