Harmon v. Harmon’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2014
17 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 Hill v. Hill · Carpenter v. Carpenter · Matter of Rich · Jones v. Jones · Phillips v. Phillips
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... D. Upon granting a decree of dissolution of marriage, annulment of a marriage, or legal separation, the court may require either party to pay such reasonable expenses of the other as may be just and proper under the circumstances. E. The court may in its discretion make additional orders relative to the expenses of any such subsequent actions, including but not limited to writs of habeas corpus, brought by the parties or their attorneys, for the enforcement or modification of any interlocutory or final orders in the dissolution of marriage action made for the benefit of either party or their respective attorneys.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. King v. King · Barnett v. Barnett“"... not governed by contract or statute, but instead are based upon equitable considerations .... [A] court of equity, independent of statute has jurisdiction to award alimony; and it must follow that a court can enforce its orders by impressing its judgment as a lien upon realty owned by the defendant, if in its opinion it is in the furtherance of what is fair and just.... [A]n equitable lien ... is not a right of property in the subject matter of the lien nor a right of action therefore, nor does it depend upon possession; but [it] is merely a right to have the property subjected to the payment of a debt or claim.... ” (Citations omitted.) (Emphasis in original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Before such an order will be reversed, it must clearly appear that the trial court abused its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jobe v. Jobe
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.