Hall v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2005
2 federal appellate · 16 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.
Relationships
Relies on Lewis v. Lewis · Warren v. Warren · Stevens v. Stevens · Diegel v. Diegel · Jewel v. Jewel
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... According to the weight of authority, such a contract, where approved by the solemn decree of the court, becomes forever binding to the same degree and with like effect as ordinary contracts between the parties admittedly sui juris and is not subject to revocation or modification, except by the consent of the parties thereto .... On the other hand, the court cannot alter or modify the decree in so far as it is based on the contract of the parties, for such a modification of the decree would be no less than a modification of the contract itself... .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stovall v. Crosby
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.