Wright v. Wentzel’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2018
18 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 300th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · McKanna v. Edgar · Stubbs v. Stubbs · Plains Growers, Inc. v. Jordan · Considine v. Considine
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'such as one desirous of actually informing the absentee might reasonably adopt to accomplish it’ ” is satisfied when a letter of notification of a rescheduled hearing in an action to modify child placement is sent by certified mail to the nonresident parent and is returned as”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if it is apparent that the address was valid and could be located by the postal office.”
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.