Hailey v. Holden’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 547 So. 2d 766 - Nichols v. Tedder (1989), 564 So. 2d 839 - Cumberland v. Cumberland (1990)
25 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 People of State of New York Halvey v. Halvey · Barber v. Barber · 382 So. 2d 474 - Hambrick v. Prestwood · 191 So. 2d 528 - Howard v. Howard · 417 So. 2d 908 - Duncan v. Duncan
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, an order still subject to modification in the state that rendered it may be modified by another state. [Citations omitted.]... Arrearages in child support payments, however, are not subject to modification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n Mississippi judicial interpretation of this legal duty to support minor children has firmly established that, once ordered, installment of child support becomes fixed and vested when due and unpaid.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a court cannot relieve the civil liability for support payments that have already accrued.”
2 later decisions 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.