Hembree v. Hembree’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is well settled that in awarding money for the maintenance of his children the court may take into consideration the father’s ability to labor and earn money and make an award based thereon, even though the father owns no property. Sebastian v. Rose, 135 Ky. 197 , 122 S. W. 120 . “The mere fact, then, that a father has no money or property at a particular time is no excuse for his persistent refusal or failure to support his children, and, even if appellant had no money or property upon the day of his commitment and since, that fact is no excuse for his continuous failure for more than two months theretofore to make any payment whatever on the award for the support of his child. To have purged himself of contempt for his failure to comply with the court’s orders he must have made it clearly appear, not only that he was unable to comply therewith, but also that his inability was not caused, by his own neglect or misconduct. Reed v. Reed, 74 S. W. 207 , 24 Ky. Law Rep. 2438 ; Rudd v. Rudd, supra [ 184 Ky. 400 , 214 S. W. 791 ]; Croft v. Croft, 77 Wash. 620 , 138 P. 6 ; 13 C. P. 19.””

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