Harding v. Harding’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1993
9 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 Craig v. Craig · Graves v. Graves · Southworth v. Treadwell · Campbell v. Campbell · Gaston v. Gaston
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The evident purpose and object of the legislature, in adopting these various provisions, was to give the court full power and authority to enter such judgment, and, upon a proper showing, to modify the same in such manner as the exigencies of the case might require. The present case presents a striking example of the necessity of such a power in the courts. The original judgment provided for the payment of $35 per month alimony by the defendant, but no payments, except. the sum of $25, were made. The defendant had been left in the possession of the homestead, on the theory, no doubt, that he would pay the alimony prescribed by the judgment promptly. Two remedies were then open to the court. One was to punish the defendant as for contempt, and the other was to modify the judgment so as to enforce the sale of the homestead property. The court adopted the latter remedy."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eggers v. Eggers““While the court is vested with power to declare the alimony awarded a lien upon the defendant’s real estate and homestead, we are of the opinion that it extends no further, and that the court, in decreeing that the possession of the property should be immediately delivered upon sale to The purchaser, exceeded its power in the premises. Our statute (sections 5151 to 5154 [Comp. Laws 1887] provides that the judgment debtor, in the case of sale of his property on execution, shall have one year in which to redeem the same, and this court Iras held that during the year the possession of the judgment debtor cannot be disturbed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Appellant claims that the effect of this section is to render void the portion of the judgment imposing a lien on his land; that the power of the court was limited to exacting”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kerr v. Kerr
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.