Doench v. Doench’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Statutes similar to the section of the Code now under consideration have frequently been before the Supreme Court of this state, and that court has invariably held that, where the court is given authority to allow attorneys’ fees in certain actions or proceedings, such allowance must be made to the party to the action, and it has annulled and declared void in every instance, as far as our information goes, orders and decrees made directly in favor of the attorneys. . . . “These authorities would indicate that the decree, in so far as it purports to allow to the attorneys certain fees for their services, is to that extent invalid. It would therefore not give the said attorney any personal interest in the judgment. Having no such interest therein, they would have no right to appear in the case representing simply themselves and not their clients, or to be heard in any proceeding to annul or set aside the decree.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kennedy v. Chadwell

2. ““From the cases above cited and quoted from we do not think the above quoted statute was ever intended to be for the benefit of wife’s counsel. The statute does not authorize such payment to be made to the wife’s counsel. When counsel fees are ordered paid they are ordered as part of the wife’s reasonable expenses and when collected she may apply .it as may be necessary for prosecuting or defending her suit. The order should be made to the wife and not to her attorney. That part of the judgment ordering appellant to pay . . . plaintiff’s attorney, for his services as attorney for plaintiff is irregular and void.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. McNabb v. Allen Superior Court No. 2

3. ““. ... on decreeing a divorce in favor of the wife or refusing one on the application of the husband, the court shall, by order to be enforced by attachment, require the husband to pay all reasonable expenses of the wife in the prosecution or defense of the petition when such divorce has been granted or refused . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Smith