Dominguez v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2011
2 federal appellate · 20 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 244th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Montgomery v. Kennedy · Massey v. Armco Steel Co. · Black v. American Bankers Insurance Company · McKinley v. Stripling · Gray v. Bertrand
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“certain bruises were made by large hands on the [child's] thighs, `presumably pulling them apart to sexually abuse her.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bird v. W.C.W.“the reporter's belief that a child has been”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Viviano v. Moore
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.