Hanks v. Hanks’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Temple v. Temple (1985), Krage v. Krage (1983)
57 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 Kressly v. Kressly · 16 Ill. 2d 268 - Peck v. Peck · Guindon v. Guindon · Masek v. Masek · Blow v. Lottman
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he amount and length of alimony payments is therefore left to the discretion of the trial court. SDCL 25-4-41. The factors for consideration in exercising that discretion are similar to those used in the property division, i.e., (1) the length of the marriage; (2) their respective earning capacity; (3) their respective financial condition after the property division; (4) their respective age, health and physical condition; (5) their station in life or social standing; and (6) the relative fault of the parties in the termination of the marriage.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stemper v. Stemper · Arens v. Arens“Where the parties come into the trial court without even a stipulation as to the values, then they had better be prepared to produce hard evidence as to those values other than their own personal opinions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Clarke v. Clarke · Larson v. Larson“accept the evidence including any reasonable inferences which are favorable to the trial court's determination.”
2 later decisions 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.