Hager v. Hager’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Hild v. Hild (2001), Renfro v. Renfro (1956)
31 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 Cassinelli v. Stacy · Clark v. Clark · Price v. Price · Hodges v. Daviess County · Deep v. Farmers' National Bank of Lebanon
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . It is difficult for society in general, and men in particular, to realize that a woman can reform and that one misstep on her part should not brand her as morally unfit to rear her child, and that nothing is left to her but the downward path to perdition. The male of the species seems to think that to him, and him alone, is reserved the right to sin, followed by forgiveness and restoration to his place in our social system. Such is not, and should not be, the moral code of a cultured people.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smothers v. Smothers
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.