Keton v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2003 · most notably Busby v. Busby (1970), Pearce v. Commissioner (1942)
5 federal appellate · 26 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 Hedtke v. Hedtke · Kirkwood v. Domnau · Rice v. Rice · Bahn v. Starcke · Fitts v. Fitts
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the purpose of doing equity, the court may award all the personal property to either spouse and may subject the income, rents or revenues of all real estate, belonging to either or both of the spouses, to the support of either or both of them, or to the education and support of the children.” Hedtke v. Hedtke, 112 Tex. 404 , 248 S.W. 21 (Tex.1923).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.