Freeman v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
March 2015
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hawk v. Hawk · Bogan v. Bogan · Estate of Walton v. Young · McCaleb v. Saturn Corp. · Whitaker v. Whitaker
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court’s decision to award attorney’s fees is considered an award of alimony. Long v. Long, 957 S.W.2d 825, 829 (Tenn.Ct.App.1997). An appellate court will not interfere with the trial court’s decision to award attorney’s fees unless it is shown that “manifest injus tice would be done if the award is allowed to stand.” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. Young
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.