Hollon v. Rethaber’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2013
5 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 Wilson v. Elliott · Miller v. Bock Laundry MacHine Co. · Drexel v. McCutcheon · Del Monte Corp. v. Martin · Fowler v. Stone
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The awarding of attorney’s fees in an action ... arising under the Texas Family Code is within the sound discretion of the trial court. [Citations omitted.] Absent a showing of an abuse of that discretion, the judgment of the trial court will not be disturbed on appeal. [Citations omitted.] Section 11.18(a) which authorizes an award of attorney’s fees in suits involving the parent-child relationship, is permissive only and does not require that such fees be awarded nor taxed as costs. [Citation omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Castillo v. Castillo
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.