Bertsch v. Bertsch’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Wolt v. Wolt (2010), Rothberg v. Rothberg (2006)
43 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 Heller v. Heller · Weigel v. Weigel · Reiser v. Reiser · Wigginton v. Wigginton · Geinert v. Geinert
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In deciding whether to award attorney fees in a divorce action, the trial court must balance one [party’s] needs against the other [party’s] ability to pay. The court should consider the property owned by each party, their relative incomes, whether property is liquid or fixed assets, and whether the action of either party unreasonably increased the time spent on the case. An award of attorney fees requires specific findings supported by evidence of the parties’ financial conditions and needs.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the best interests of the child, rather than the wishes or desires of the parents, are paramount.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rath v. Rath
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.