Welsh v. Welsh’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 328th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Holmes v. United States · Cochran v. United States · Idaho v. Wright · Miami Center Ltd. Partnership v. Bank of New York · Morrow v. H.E.B., Inc.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a type of derivative court, a court acting as the [existing court] but with a different judge and in a different courtroom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Di Ferrante v. Smith
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.