Hendricks v. Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2014
12 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 Dahlberg v. Dahlberg · Chaffee v. Chaffee · Rockwood v. Rockwood
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The amount of alimony is measured by the wife’s needs and requirements, considering her station in life, and upon the husband’s ability to pay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. English v. English
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.