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Haddock v. Haddock

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
201 U.S. 562
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
83 of 83
Citing cases (total)
558
Treatment dates
1943
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. Haddock v. Haddock is overruled: all 83 flagged citations have been read, and the confirmed treatment is listed below. Williams v. North Carolina expressly overruled Haddock's rule permitting a state to deny full faith and credit to an ex parte divorce granted by a sister state where one spouse was bona fide domiciled.
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The pre-Williams opinions applied or discussed Haddock, while the later opinions reported Williams's act, addressed the surviving rule that domicile remains jurisdictionally necessary, or placed nearby adverse language on another authority or ruling. No separate lower-court treatment is attributed to the opinions that merely recited the history.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

558 later cases cite Haddock v. Haddock; 83 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled

  • The Supreme Court overruled Haddock's rule allowing a state to withhold full faith and credit from a sister state's ex parte divorce decree despite one spouse's bona fide domicile in the divorcing state.

    Williams v. North Carolina · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    And the considerable interests involved, and the substantial and far-reaching effects which the allowance of an exception would have on innocent persons, indicate that the purpose of the full faith and credit clause and of the supporting legislation would be thwarted to a substantial degree if the rule of Haddock v. Haddock were perpetuated. Haddock v. Haddock is overruled.
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