Ex Parte Hovermale’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2009
19 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 Linkletter v. Walker · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Hines v. Davidowitz · Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We can perceive no area of law requiring more stability and finality than family law. Public policy demands finality of litigation in this area to preserve surviving family structure. A retroactive application would reopen old wounds and rekindle animosities long since extinguished. The results would be devastating to the litigants and to the judiciary in terms of expense, time and number of cases. In many instances, it would be impossible for a court to arrive at a just and equitable redistribution of assets.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Lucher“Because state law was so firmly entrenched before the Court sounded the warning in McCarty that state interests must yield to Congressional objectives, there can be no contention that a clear prohibition existed rendering state intervention into a heretofore exclusive federal area a nullity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“That the judgment may have been wrong or premised on a legal principle subsequently overruled does not affect application of res judicata. (Cases cited).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baxter v. Ruddle
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.