Hamil v. Hamil’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1975
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.
Relationships
Relies on Beach v. Beach · Wesner v. O'Brien · Bennett Ex Rel. Wilson v. Bennett · Buffalo v. Letson
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.
““A court of equity, independent of statute, has jurisdiction to award alimony, even when no divorce is sought. “Where a husband, after having made fraudulent conveyances of his property to defeat the rights of his wife, has absconded, a court of equity will, in an action by the wife for alimony, set aside such conveyances, and subject the property to a lien for the alimony awarded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sims v. Sims
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.