Ex Parte Rutherford’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2009
6 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 Dignowity v. Fly · Fidelity Union Casualty Co. v. Hanson · Dignowity v. Court of Civil Appeals · Ex Parte Henderson · Taft v. Johnson
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.
“The trial court's order has been divested of its enforceable character not because of the fact that an appeal ha[s] been perfected ..., but because the appeal succeeded and the order ha[s] been set aside. The statute [former family code section 11.19(c), now section 109.002(c)] contains no language which suggests that an order of a trial court in a custody case remains in effect after it has been reversed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Jerry F.“supports the thesis that an application for writ of error, in some mysterious way, deprives of all vitality a judgment of a Court of Civil Appeals reversing the judgment of a trial court and, at the same time, breathing new life into, and reinstating, the judgment of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“judicial pronouncement, by a court having power to make the determination, that the judgment... shall not stand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Jerry F.
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.