Harmon v. Harmon’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably Musgrove v. Musgrove (1957), 195 Ga. App. 493 - Rowe v. Rowe (1990)
28 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 Jones v. Jones · Watts v. Watts · Mullally v. Mullally · Dicks v. Dicks · Pearson v. Horne
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Code § 30-127, the court can make a final disposition of the minor children of the parties only when a divorce is granted. [Cit.] This power is incident to the divorce proceeding, and is exercisable only when a valid divorce is granted between the parties. [Cits.] In this case, since no valid divorce was granted for the reason previously stated, the court was without power to fix custody and control . . .” Harmon v. Harmon, 209 Ga. 474 (4) ( 74 SE2d 75 ). Therefore, the habeas corpus court properly ruled that the question of custody of the child was before it. Such being the case, '”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffis v. Griffis
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.