Gresham v. Gresham’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1994
20 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 Miller v. Miller · Gresham v. Gresham · Winkler v. Winkler · Rees v. Rees · Johnson v. Howard
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]eeking, without justification, alteration of his liability to her from a Court decree fixing it, [he] should pay for her an attorney's fee. Otherwise, he could sue her so often as to impose an oppressive burden on her allowance in resisting his repeated applications.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This brings us to the question of attorney's fees. The learned chancellor denied application of appellant for any amount for her solicitors. Appellee cites Miller v. Miller, 173 Miss. 44 , 159 So. 112 ; Parker v. Parker, 71 Miss. 164 , 14 So. 459 ; Rees v. Rees, 188 Miss. 256 , 193 So. 334 , 194 So. 750 . But they have no application here, except that appellant is entitled to representation by a competent solicitor, and solicitor's fees accordingly. Her alimony allowance and rentals cannot be termed large enough for her to pay her counsel out of it. (The house in Brookhaven is mortgaged.) The appellant brought her into court on this matter resulting from their former marital status, seeking, without justification, an alteration of his liability to her from a court decree fixing it, and we think should pay her an attorney's fee. Otherwise, he could sue her so often as to impose an oppressive burden on her allowance in resisting his repeated applications. We think allowance of an attorney's fee should have been made her by the court below. ( 199 Miss. at 784-85 , 25 So.2d at 762 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The appellant brought her [appellee] into court on [the] matter ... seeking, without justification, an alteration of his liability to her from a court decree fixing it, and we think [he] should pay her an attorney's fee. Otherwise, he could sue her as often as to impose an oppressive burden on her allowance in resisting his repeated applications.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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