Hudson v. Markum’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Once the trial court decided the paternity and support of the child, it acquired continuing jurisdiction over the parent-child relationship. It retained continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to hear a new proceeding affecting that relationship. That Hudson filed his motion to modify during the pendency of his appeal from the order he seeks to modify does not alter the trial court’s jurisdiction. Because the family code vests the trial court with continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to hear Hudson’s motion to modify child support, the trial court erred in dismissing his motion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. in Re Rico Daniel Reardon