Hunter v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2001 · most notably 23 Cal. App. 3d 343 - McLellan v. McLellan (1972), 213 Cal. App. 3d 14 - In Re the Marriage of Green (1989)
34 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 41 Cal. 2d 202 - Gudelj v. Gudelj · 23 Cal. 2d 754 - Tomaier v. Tomaier · Siberell v. Siberell · Huber v. Huber · 122 Cal. App. 2d 116 - Thomasset v. Thomasset
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The granting or denial of counsel fees on appeal in divorce litigation is within the sound discretion of the trial court and an order made either way will not be reversed in the absence of an abuse of discretion. [Citations.] “The law’s purpose in allowing attorney’s fees and costs to a wife who has not sufficient monies to meet such expenses is to assure to women with domestic difficulties that they will have their day in court, on appeal as well as at the trial. Four conditions must concur to warrant an allowance of attorney’s fees in such a ease as this: (1) The wife must be in need of such assistance—if she has ample funds of her own to retain counsel no requirement that her husband pay counsel fees is justified; (2) The husband must have the ability to pay; (3) The proposed appeal must be taken in good faith; (4) There must be a reasonable ground for the appeal; this does not mean that the appellant must be assured of success, but that reasonable men should believe that the contentions to be urged merit attention and resolution by an appellate court. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““From [wife’s] affidavit and the evidence in the record it appears to be uncontroverted that [wife] did hot have the funds necessary to prosecute the [motion] or to pay attorneys fees, that respondent is able to pay a reasonable sum therefor, and that the [motion] was taken in good faith and presented debatable questions which were not without substantial merit or controversy. Under the circumstances, it must be held that the court erred in denying [wife’s] application for a reasonable allowance for costs and counsel fees ....” (Hunter v. Hunter (1962) 202 Cal.App.2d 84, 93 [ 20 Cal.Rptr. 730 ].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.