Weirich v. Weirich’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Continental Coffee Products Co. v. Cazarez (1997), Twyman v. Twyman (1993)
115 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 Pool v. Ford Motor Co. · Fears v. Mechanical & Industrial Technicians, Inc. · Mayad v. Rizk · Pentikis v. Texas Electric Service Company · Weirich v. Weirich
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who takes or retains possession of a child or who conceals the whereabouts of a child in violation of a court order that provides for possessory interests in a child may be liable for damages to the person who is denied a possessory interest in the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lozano v. Lozano
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.