Hatcher v. Hatcher’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Jegley v. Picado (2002), Boyles v. Boyles (1980)
49 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 Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson · Lutwak v. United States · Trimble v. Gordon · Orr v. Orr
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]ivorce and the incidental rights, responsibilities and liabilities of a divorce, are purely statutory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sweeney v. Sweeney · Gross v. Gross“(1) to provide help for needy spouses, using sex as a proxy for need and (2) to compensate women for past discrimination during marriage which arguably has left them unprepared to fend for themselves in a working world * * * [ 440 U.S. at 280 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The fact that the Arkansas law in question only relates to temporary, as opposed to permanent, alimony is not significant. It is not a question of temporary or permanent alimony. It is a question of a gender-based classification of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. 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.