Proffer v. Yates’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Canadian Helicopters Ltd. v. Wittig (1994), In Re Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. (1999)
82 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 Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio))
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Fourth Court of Appeals · Cassidy v. Fuller · Leonard v. Paxson · Proffer v. Yates
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Justice demands a speedy resolution of child custody and child support issues”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) If a petition for further action concerning the child or a motion to modify or enforce a decree is filed in a court having continuing jurisdiction of the suit, on the timely motion of any party, the court shall transfer the proceeding to the county where venue is proper on the basis of either a supporting uncontro-verted affidavit or after a hearing when a controverting affidavit contesting the venue has been filed.... If the child resided in another county for six months or longer, the court shall transfer the proceeding to that county.... ****** (f) A motion to transfer by a petitioner or movant is timely if it is made at the time the initial pleadings are filed.... If a timely motion to transfer has been filed and no controverting affidavit is filed within the period allowed for its filing, the proceeding shall be transferred promptly without a hearing to the proper court. (Emphasis Added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sokolosky v. McFall
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.