Wilde v. Murchie’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Shanks v. Treadway (2003), Reiss v. Reiss (2003)
28 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, 13th District)
Relationships
Relies on Busby v. Busby · Point Lookout West, Inc. v. Whorton · Lone Star Cement Corporation v. Fair · Constance v. Constance · Harrell v. Harrell
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[I]f the decree, when read as a whole, is unambiguous as to the property's disposition, the court must effectuate the order in light of the literal language used.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gainous v. Gainous
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.