Waldie v. Waldie’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2025
11 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 Ackerman v. Ackerman · Bertsch v. Bertsch · Whitmire v. Whitmire · City of Devils Lake v. Corrigan
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 11 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Solem v. Solem“A district court abuses its discretion when it acts arbitrarily, capriciously, or unreasonably, or if it misinterprets or misapplies the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Pederson Trust“When a district court may do something, it is generally a matter of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Pederson Trust
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.