Miele v. Miele’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2025
23 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 Smith v. Smith · Bryant v. Bryant · Bayley v. Bayley · Hebert v. Hebert · Dargie v. Dargie
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An award of counsel fees is based upon all relevant factors in determining what is 'fair and just under the circumstances, including the parties’ relative capacity to absorb the costs of litigation. Both parties have incurred substantial legal fees in this matter, and the [c]ourt has considered the manner in which both par- ' ties litigated the case in determining the reasonableness of the fees request. In light of the rest of the provisions contained in the Divorce Judgment, including the award of spousal support and disposition with respect to David’s military pension, the court orders both sides to bear the costs of his and-her own counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berntsen v. Berntsen
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.