Alexander v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 243rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte Lowery · Collins v. Miller · P. Bosco & Sons Contracting Corp. v. Conley, Lott, Nichols MacHinery Co. · Ex Parte Mullins · Lloyd v. Myers
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a court acquires jurisdiction of a suit affecting the parent-child relationship, that court retains continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of all parties and matters provided for under this subtitle in connection with the child. No other court of this state has jurisdiction of a suit affecting the parent-child relationship with regard to that child except on transfer as provided in Section 11.06 or 17.06 of this code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Alexander v. Russell
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.