Hull v. Hull’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Zouck v. Zouck (1990), Lopez v. Lopez (1955)
40 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 Dougherty v. Dougherty · Kriedo v. Kriedo · Roberts v. Roberts · Sunshine Laundry Corp. v. White · Stirn v. Stirn
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In sustaining a demurrer to that petition this court pointed out that the father was under the common law obligation to support the child during its minority and this obligation continued without regard to the divorce decree, unless in that decree the court should order that the child be supported by someone other than the father.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.