Waters v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Petrini v. Petrini (1994), 11 Md. App. 638 - Quinn v. Quinn (1971)
69 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 Dougherty v. Dougherty · Hood v. Hood · Saltzgaver v. Saltzgaver · Timanus v. Timanus · Bradshaw v. Bradshaw
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although, in this case, the husband has been found guilty of adultery, the awarding of alimony is never a punitive measure. In determining an award of alimony and whether ‘the wife’s income is insufficient to care for her needs,’ the court should consider the husband’s wealth and earning capacity, the station in life of the parties, age, physical condition, the ability to work, the length of time the parties have lived together, the circumstances leading up to the divorce, and the fault which destroyed the home, [citations omitted] Also, of course, to he taken into consideration are the assets and income of the wife, [citations omitted] In making such an award the court can only use judicial discretion. Of course, there is no special statute or rule governing this discretion. It must be exercised to the necessary end of awarding justice and based upon reason and law.” (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * [C]ounsel fees should be awarded according ‘to the ordinary factors of labor, skill, time, and benefit.’ The amount of the fee also cannot be wholly disassociated from the financial resources of the party charged, * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In all cases where alimony or alimony pendente lite and counsel fees are claimed, the court shall not award such alimony or counsel fees unless it shall appear from the evidence that the wife’s income is insufficient to care for her needs.” (Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.