Owens v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2009
6 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 Fraley, Adm'r v. Wilkinson · Mabry v. Baird · Kelly v. Maupin · Friedman v. Friedman · Harmon v. Hines
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Attorneys for the wife in a divorce case have a personal interest in the allowance of attorney fees to the extent that the attorneys may in their own name enforce the payment of [attorney fees] to themselves and for their own private benefit, though the wife does not participate in such proceedings with the attorneys, and though the wife may be antagonistic to such enforcement by the attorneys.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swick v. Swick
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.