Hardy v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Jenkins v. Jenkins (2001), Smith v. Smith (1997)
43 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 Donahue v. Donahue · 84 N.C. App. 471 - Geer v. Geer · Allen v. Allen · Hartley v. Hartley · Husband v. Wife
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... any other existing debts incurred by the parties or either of them during the course of the marriage[.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wooten v. Wooten · Wooten v. Wooten“[S]ection 20-7-472 creates a [rebuttable] presumption that a debt of either spouse incurred prior to marital litigation is a marital debt and must be factored in the totality of equitable apportionment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wooten v. Wooten · Wooten v. Wooten“If the trial judge finds that a spouse's debt was not made for marital purposes, it need not be factored into the court's equitable apportionment of the marital estate, and the trial judge may require payment by the spouse who created the debt for nonmarital purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wooten v. Wooten
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.