Powell v. Swanson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2010
10 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 310th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Worford v. Stamper · Simon v. York Crane & Rigging Co., Inc. · Parks v. U.S. Home Corp. · Stout v. Christian · Chamberlain v. Chamberlain
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In other words, it does not specifically characterize an inheritance as income for the purpose of calculating child support. This is significant because section 154.062(b)(5) sweeps inheritances into the category of resources only if an inheritance is income. Black's Law Dictionary defines inheritance as”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re PCS“income tax regulations are distinct from the rules in the Family Code, and calculations prepared under one set of rules do not necessarily comply with the requirements of the other”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re PCS
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.