Halcomb v. Halcomb’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
December 1994
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hicks v. Hicks
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With respect to the appellant's suggestion that the wife's parents should support the child because they are wealthy we need only say that we are amazed that such a suggestion could seriously be made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cummings v. Cummings
How this case has been treated — in progress
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