Ex Parte Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Ex Parte Chambers (1995), Iliff v. Iliff (2011)
42 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, 5th District (Dallas))
Relationships
Relies on Cunningham v. Cunningham · Ex Parte Davis · Ex Parte Claude D. Birkhead · Ex Parte Gorena · Mobley v. Mobley
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he obligation which the law imposes on spouses to support one another and on parents to support their children is not considered a “debt” within Article I, section 18, but a legal duty arising out of the status of the parties. ... However, a person may also contract to support his spouse and children, and that obligation, to the extent it exceeds his legal duty, is a debt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and that obligation, to the extent it exceeds his legal duty, is a debt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Johnson
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.