Adams v. Stotts’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If financial inability to pay was `good cause' then, contrary to rule 131, the winner — not the loser — of a lawsuit would often be in a better position to pay the costs.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Price Construction, Inc. v. Castillo · Furr's Supermarkets, Inc. v. Bethune

2. “§ 13.42 Conservatorship, Support, Fees, and Payments (a) In a suit in which a determination of paternity is sought, the court may provide for the managing and possessory conservatorship and support of and access to the child; except that no alleged father denying paternity may be required to make any payment for the support of the child until paternity is established. On a finding of paternity, the court may order support retroactive to the time of the filing of the suit and, on a proper showing, may order a party to pay an equitable portion of all prenatal and postnatal related health care expenses of the mother and child. (b) In addition to the payment authorized by Section 14.05 of this code, the court may award reasonable attorney’s fees incurred in the suit. (c) A payment ordered under Subsection (b) of this section is enforceable as provided in Subchapter B of Chapter lj of this code. (d) All of the provisions of Section 11.11 of this code are applicable to an alleged or probable father petitioning to have his paternity of a child adjudicated or who admits paternity in pleadings filed with the court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Goheen v. Koester