Sims v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"In an equitable action the findings of the trial court should be sustained, unless it appears his findings are clearly against the weight of the evidence; and the findings of the trial court should be strongly persuasive, and should not be set aside unless the Supreme Court can say, in equity and good conscience, that the conclusion reached by the trial court is clearly against the weight of the evidence."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harmon v. Harmon

2. “"As stated in the case of Hanscom v. Hanscom, supra, ( 6 Colo. App. 97 , 39 P. 885 ) a court of equity, independent of statute, has jurisdiction to award alimony; and it must necessarily follow that such a court can enforce its orders by impressing its judgment as a lien upon realty owned by the defendant, if in its opinion it is in the furtherance of what is fair and just."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harmon v. Harmon

3. ““Now, if the wife, technically speaking, is not a creditor, she is included in the term ‘other person,’ in the statute regarding fraudulent conveyances; and when the husband, by cruel treatment, compels the wife to leave him and brings an action for divorce and alimony, she is a quasi creditor in relation to the alimony which the law awards to her.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commons v. Bragg