Hamm v. Hamm’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably Preston v. Preston (1992), Murrell v. Murrell (1989)
27 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 Guggenmos v. Guggenmos · Taylor v. Taylor · Parker v. ST. ELIZABETH COM. HEALTH CTR. · Pfeiffer v. Pfeiffer · Frost v. Frost
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In awarding attorney fees in a dissolution action we consider the nature of the case, the amount involved in the controversy, the services actually performed, the results obtained, the length of time required for preparation and presentation of the case, the novelty and difficulty of questions, and the customary charges for similar services.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Preston v. Preston
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.