Herman v. Herman’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Myrick v. Myrick (1999), 80 Ark. App. 408 - Hass v. Hass (2003)
27 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 Burns v. Burns · Western World Ins. Co., Inc. v. Branch · Bracken v. Bracken · 41 Ark. App. 29 - Smith v. Smith · Byrd v. Byrd
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [trial court’s reasoning also conflicts with our holding in Byrd v. Byrd, 252 Ark. 202 , 478 S.W.2d 45 (1972), which clearly indicates that marriage and nonmarital cohabitation are not equivalent for purposes of determining whether a former spouse is entitled to continue receiving alimony. Without deciding the issue, we suggested that a spouse who cohabitates with a third party might lose his or her entitlement to alimony if (1) the third-party “companion” has assumed responsibility for the spouse’s “care and maintenance”; or (2) the spouse has assumed his or her companion’s name and held himself or herself out publicly as the companion’s spouse.”
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.