Graham v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2019
23 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 Porter v. Porter · Murdock v. Murdock
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In arriving at the amount of alimony and child support, the trial judge should take into consideration the needs of the wife and child and the financial ability of the husband and father to meet them, considering his income and assets. It is proper to consider the wife’s health, age, general physical condition, and her income and earning capacity. It is also proper to consider the husband’s necessities and living expenses in fixing the amount of alimony and child support. The amount of the award for alimony and child support should not be excessive but should be fair and just to all parties concerned. Murdock v. Murdock, 243 S. C. 218, 133 S. E. (2d) 323 ; Porter v. Porter, 246 S. C. 332, 143 S. E. (2d) 619 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Smith · Sweeney v. Sweeney
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.