Hutton v. Hutton’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 550 So. 2d 986 - Ex Parte Bayliss (1989), 56 Ala. App. 318 - Womble v. Womble (1975)
58 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 Rochelle v. Rochelle · Davis v. Davis · Colton v. Colton · Murrah v. Bailes · Walker v. Walker
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“except for clear and sufficient reasons after the question has been subjected to thorough consideration and investigation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Where support has been awarded for a minor child in a divorce proceedings, and the child reaches the age of 21 years, the obligation for support payments cease[s], even though the child is mentally or physically disabled. This is the rule of the common law, and being unchanged by statute, is the prevailing rule in this state. Murrah v. Bailes, Judge , 255 Ala. 178 , 50 So.2d 735 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]n agreement between parents fixing child support becomes merged into the divorce decree and thereby loses its contractual nature, at least to the extent that a court of equity has the power to modify the decree when changed conditions so justify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Nelson
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.