Pearson v. Hatcher’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2018
14 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 Ramsay v. Ramsay · 191 So. 2d 528 - Howard v. Howard · Castleberry v. Castleberry · Gresham v. Gresham · Lindsey v. Lindsey
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he dignity and strength of the Court through the enforcement of its decrees require nothing less”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“We do not reach the question of whether the trial court erred in declining to find the appellee in contempt. We think this should be determined on his present ability to pay when the amount in default is determined on remand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the amount of support money in default so that the [husband's] present ability to pay the sum might be adjudged.”
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.