Kearley v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1983
7 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 Columbus Hotel Corp. v. Hotel Management Co. · Mooty v. Mooty · Gallemore v. Gallemore · Norton v. Norton · Miller v. Miller
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.
““Courts of equity have the power and jurisdiction to grant relief and set aside and annul judgments and decrees obtained by fraud, deceit, artifice or trickery. “The burden of proof under the law was on the plaintiff .. . to establish by competent evidence of fraud, deceit, duress, coercion or over-reaching on the part of (defendant) in obtaining an alimony settlement with her. “Agreements made in good faith, free from fraud, deceit or trickery relating to alimony between husband and wife or the adjustment of their property rights, though made in contemplation of divorce, can or may be sustained or upheld by the courts.””
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.