Morrison v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Zieba v. Martin (1996), Robles v. Robles (1998)
25 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 303rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Murff v. Murff · Horlock v. Horlock · Wallen v. State · Muns v. Muns · Redman v. Bennett
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as actually an order for retroactive child support. Id. at 779-80 . Finding the judgment was not ambiguous, we concluded we could not consider extrinsic evidence. Id. Here, the trial court's findings, not extrinsic evidence, characterize the payment as a lump sum payment. McDonald also argues the evidence is insufficient to support the trial court's finding of fact number six”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re EAC“We conclude that when a court files belated findings the only issue that arises is the injury to the appellant, not the trial court’s jurisdiction to make the findings. Additionally, we find no language in rule 298 that precludes a judge from responding to an untimely request for findings.”
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.