61 Tex. Civ. App. 263 - Watson v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1999 · most notably Hopkins v. Bacon (1930), United States v. Rompel (1945)
10 federal appellate · 32 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is so repugnant to our sense of justice that this court will never sanction the proposition that a husband may desert his lawful wife, and while living in adultery with another woman, donate to the latter as a gift his wife’s interest in the property owned by them in common, unless the Legislature enacts a law which will admit of no other construction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberson v. Roberson
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.