McGoodwin v. McGoodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Truman v. Deason (1987), Allen v. Allen (1986)
2 federal appellate · 40 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 Francis v. Francis · Ex Parte Jones · DeBord v. Muller · Briscoe v. Bronaugh · White, Smith & Baldwin v. Downs
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Correct resolution of the question presented requires first an understanding of the effect given a marital property settlement agreement by Texas law. Such an agreement, though incorporated into a final divorce decree, is treated as a contract, and its legal force and its meaning are governed by the law of contracts, not by the law of judgments. [Citations omitted.] The property settlement provision now considered is one that directs the payment of money as consideration for the conveyance of an interest in real estate. Its construction, therefore, is dictated by the law regarding contracts for the sale of land. [Emphasis added.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“established Texas law holds that when no express lien is reserved in a deed and the purchase money is not paid, a lien nevertheless arises by implication in favor of the vendor to secure payment of the purchase money,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“); Ex parte Jones , 163 Tex. 513 , 358 S.W.2d 370 , 375 (1962) (”
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.