Henderson v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Fried v. Fried (1985), Daly v. DelPonte (1993)
3 federal appellate · 81 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 152 Pa. Super. 517 - Rutherford v. Rutherford · 168 Pa. Super. 538 - Brady v. Brady · Morgan v. Morgan
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" 'The thrust of the Equal Rights Amendment is to insure equality of rights under the law and to eliminate sex as a basis for distinction. The sex of citizens of this Commonwealth is no longer a permissible factor in the determination of their legal rights and legal responsibilities. The law will not impose different benefits or different burdens upon the members of a society based on the fact that they may be man or woman.’ ” [Rand, 280 Md. at 513 , 374 A.2d at 903 .]”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage““Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania because of the sex of the individual. ””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Section 46 has been interpreted as allowing the courts in appropriate cases to provide the wife, who is either suing or defending in divorce, a reasonable sum as will enable her to maintain herself during the pending action and provide for the necessary expenses of that action. ... As noted by the opinion in the Superior Court for reversal: “If the purpose of the Act ..., is to insure that lack of financial ability will not prevent an action or defense by a wife in a divorce case, then this intent may only be implemented by legislation which would also preserve a husband’s similar rights to bring or defend a divorce action where he lacked the financial ability and his wife has sufficient ability to pay.””
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.