Hodges v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Williams v. Pilot Life Insurance Company (1975), Knutton v. Cofield (1968)
41 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 Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · United States v. Jefferson Electric Manufacturing Co. · Bizzell v. Bizzell · Ballard v. Ballard · Reid v. Johnston
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“right and duty to consider and weigh all the competent evidence before him, giving to it such probative value as in his sound discretion and opinion it is entitled to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“inferences as are reasonable and proper under the circumstances, even though another different inference, equally reasonable, might also be drawn therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.