Harris v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1989
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 Kendrick v. Kendrick · Pisciotto v. Crucia · Laiche v. Laiche · Fortier v. Gelpi · Matheny v. Matheny
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"And it is well to keep in mind that each case that deals with alimony must, of necessity, be determined on its own facts and circumstances, and the result of one case will not necessarily control that of another due to differing factual circumstances."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * In Gantz v. Wagner, 188 La. 833 , 178 So. 367 , the court considered the combined income of the husband-father and that of his second wife in determining the ability of the husband to pay alimony where it was shown that the first wife and children of the first marriage were in necessitous circumstances. And in Pierce v. Pierce, 213 La. 475 , 35 So.2d 22 , the fact that the second wife worked was considered in determining the ability to pay."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lytell v. Lytell“income” when determining maintenance. Also, it is not possible to predict the differing circumstances of divorces, and adopt a rule which will always be fair. It is better to allow trial courts to consider the effect of gifts "as one of the intertwined circumstances used in the complex task of measuring, as against the husband’s ability to pay, the wife’s basic needs for maintenance...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.