Hector v. Hector’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 1998 · most notably Harmon v. DEPT. OF SOCIAL & HEALTH SERV. (1998), Harmon v. Department of Social & Health Services (1998)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 Zilley v. Dunwiddie · Gibson v. Gibson · Ditmar v. Ditmar · Clifford v. Williams · Hall v. Green
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The respondent has moved to dismiss the appeal for the reason that no exceptions were taken to the findings of fact. In opposition to this motion the appellant contends that no findings of fact were made, but with that contention we are unable to agree. While it is true that no formal findings of fact were made, as that term is understood in law actions, yet, where a decree is entered in an equitable action finding or reciting all the material facts in the cause, such findings or recitals have all the force and effect of formal findings in any other action and will be accepted as true by this court, unless proper exceptions are taken. In re Clifford, 37 Wash. 460 , 79 Pac. 1001 , 107 Am. St. 819; Poor v. Cudihee, 37 Wash. 609 , 79 Pac. 1105 .” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The practice of litigating questions of this kind by piecemeal cannot be too strongly condemned. Here the parties settled their property rights, and in all probability the issues in the divorce action, and a decree was entered making no provisions whatever for the support or maintenance of the minor child. Almost immediately the wife begins to assert claims against the husband which should have been determined and adjusted in the divorce action. Such a practice is neither in the interest of the parties nor in the interest of society at large.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Coolidge“[T]he obligation of the father and mother in this state in relation to the maintenance and support of their minor children is joint and several, and not primary and secondary as at common law. And when the mother supports and maintains the children she is but performing an obligation which the law imposes jointly upon her and the father, and we know of no principle of law that would permit her to recover the entire expense of such maintenance and support from her joint obligor.”
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.