In Re Garza’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 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 37th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Trader v. Dear · Alexander v. Russell · Pursley v. Ussery
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.
“But because judge shopping is a serious temptation for some parents and because we must focus on the children, SAPCRs should be determined not only in the court of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction, but also by the same judge. Before another case like, this one appears on this court’s docket, the district judges should implement the spirit of the Family Code by creating a rule requiring the presiding judge to consider assigning motions and actions related to custody and support of children to the same judge who rendered earlier decisions related to those children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re Aguilera“Recognizing the need to commit the decision of all controversies that directly affect the welfare of particular children to a single court, the legislature enacted [former] section 11.05 providing for continuing jurisdiction.... Consolidation of the various suits into one suit affecting the parent-child relationship and investing only one court with power to rule on issues affecting the child provides an effective way to give courts access to more information and leaves them wide latitude in dealing with the best interests of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re Aguilera
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.