Jacobs v. Cude’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably James v. Hitchcock Independent School District (1987), Stinnett v. Williamson County Sheriff's Department (1993)
28 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 Hidalgo v. Surety Savings and Loan Association · Texas Department of Corrections v. Herring · Busby v. Busby · Hardin v. Hardin · Taggart v. Taggart
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By its very nature, a residuary clause encompasses those things not specified in the decree but included in the community properly under the jurisdiction of the court. Otherwise, a party to an earlier judgment would be able to collaterally “chip away” at the ownership status of property already adjudicated by a court, and the entire purpose of the residuary clause would be destroyed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tharp v. Tharp · Buys v. Buys
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.