Hurd v. Hurd’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2013
16 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 49 Ala. App. 665 - Self v. Self · Fruehauf Corp. v. Prater · Shirley v. Shirley · Hallmark v. Hallmark · 356 So. 2d 1208 - Clark v. Clark
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n award exceeding the husband's stated income does not automatically amount to an abuse of discretion on the part of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Andrews v. Andrews“the husband is to pay $40,000 alimony in gross at the rate of $4,000 per year,”
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.