Lytle v. Lytle’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Liles v. Liles (1986), Potter v. Potter (1983)
36 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 Old Republic Insurance Company v. Alexander · 4 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1255, 5 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 7956 Mrs. Lorena W. Weeks v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Sylvia Roberts, Counsel for Lorena W. Weeks · Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. Rummell · Kientz v. Kientz · Ramsey v. Ramsey
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant objects to the attorney’s fee allowed in this case on two bases. First, he says there is absolutely nothing in the record to afford an objective standard on which the trial court could assess and determine the amount of the fee, and urges that we treat fees arrived at in such a “haphazard” fashion from a subjective viewpoint by the chancellor as erroneous. We decline to accept this invitation. We have repeatedly held that the award of attorney’s fees in divorce cases is a matter lying within the sound judicial discretion of the chancellor, the exercise of which will not be disturbed on appeal in the absence of its abuse. Unless appellant has demonstrated that the amount of fees allowed was excessive, we will affirm. [Cites omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. Bell
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.