Lyons v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1994
13 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 Vaca v. Sipes · People ex rel. Moffett v. Bates · Wheeler v. Wheeler · Reilly v. Reilly · Ritz v. Ritz
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would reqüire an extremely strong showing to convince this court that an award is so arbitrary as to constitute an abuse of discretion. Certainly the trial court is not bound by any mathematical computation of time consumed multiplied by some hourly rate. Consideration should be given to many factors, including the quality and nature of the services performed, the necessity for such services, the results obtained from the services, and the husband’s ability to pay. [Ritz v. Ritz, D.C.App., 197 A.2d 155 , 156— 57 (1964) (construing D.C.Code 1961, § 16 — 410, predecessor statute to D.C. Code 1978 Supp., § 16-910).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Darling v. Darling“The Family Division of the Superior Court shall be assigned . . . exclusive jurisdiction of— (3) determination and adjudication of property rights, both real and personal, in any action referred to in this section, irrespective of any jurisdictional limitation imposed on the Superior Court .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hemily v. Hemily“[I]f the wife were found to have some interest, some claim of right, whether legal or equitable, in the property involved it is settled that in a divorce proceeding the court may adjudicate the property rights of the spouses, and award the wife property which belongs to her. [/d.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGean v. McGean
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.