Wagner v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Paulson v. Paulson (2010), Wold v. Wold (2008)
25 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 · Bertsch v. Bertsch · Kostelecky v. Kostelecky · Ulsaker v. White · Bladow v. Bladow
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the respective ages of the parties, their earning ability, the duration of the marriage and conduct of the parties during the marriage, their station in life, the circumstances and necessities of each, their health and physical condition, their financial circumstances as shown by the property owned at the time, its value at the time, its income-producing capacity, if any, whether accumulated before or after the marriage, and such other matters as may be material. The trial court is not required to make specific findings, but it must specify a rationale for its determination.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Berg v. Berg · Crandall v. Crandall“"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."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ulsaker v. White · Feist v. Feist“In balancing the needs against the other’s ability to pay, and considering the property being awarded the parties, their relative incomes, and whether the action unreasonably increased the time spent on the case, the Court is ordering that each party shall be responsible for their own attorney’s fees and costs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Feist v. Feist
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.