Hendricks v. Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 state decisions

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When a divorce shall be granted by reason of the fault or aggression of the husband, the wife shall be restored to her maiden or former name if she so desires, and also to all the property, lands, tenements, hereditaments owned by her before her marriage or acquired by her in her own right after such marriage, and not previously disposed of, and shall be allowed such alimony as the court shall think reasonable, having due regard to the property which came to him by marriage and the value of his real and personal estate at the time of said divorce; which alimony may be allowed to her in real or personal property, or both, or by decreeing to her such sum of money, payable either in gross or in installments, as the court may deem just and equitable. If the divorce shall be granted by reason of the fault or aggression of the wife, the court shall order restoration to her of the whole of her property, lands, tenements and hereditaments owned by her before, or by her separately acquired after such marriage, and not previously disposed of, and also the court may award the wife such share of her husband’s real and personal property, or both, as to the court may appear just and reasonable; and she shall be barred of all right in all the remaining lands of which her husband may at any time have been seized. And to such property, whether real or personal, as shall have been acquired by the parties jointly during their marriage, whether the title thereto be in either or both of said par”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Garver v. Garver

2. ““The power to grant a divorce is statutory and does not come through the common law. . . . The doctrine of alimony is based upon the common-law obligation of the husband to support the wife, which is not removed by his misconduct. The right of the courts, however, to grant alimony is statutory, and the general rule is that courts of equity have no power to decree permanent alimony in the absence of statutory authority.” (Hendricks v. Hendricks, 136 Kan. 69, 70 , 12 P. 2d 804 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marshall v. Marshall

3. ““Where a divorce is granted by reason of the fault or aggression of the wife, the court does not have the power to require the husband to pay permanent alimony.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Petty v. Petty