Cambron v. Pottinger’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2012
10 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 American Railway Express Company v. Commonwealth · Bailey's Admrs. v. Barclay · Howard v. Carmichael · Cambron v. Pottinger · Whitehead v. Fulton
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This matter is before the Court on Dodd & Dodd, PLLC and Allen P. Dodd, Ill’s Motion to Alter, Amend and/or Vacate the portion of this Court’s July 13, 2004 Opinion and Order concerning the denial of reasonable attorney fees to Dodd from the Burkett grandchildren. The other portions of this Court’s July 2004 order are now before Kentucky’s Court of Appeals awaiting review. Having reviewed all pleadings, applicable law and through other sufficient advice, the Court shall grant the motion to amend its judgment as to the issue of attorney’s fees. The facts and procedural history of this action are well known to the Court and all involved parties. The central issue of this current motion is whether Mr. Dodd is entitled to an award of attorney fees from the Burkett grandchildren, William R. Burkett III and Heather Burkett, in consideration for his work resulting in the probating of William R. Burkett, Sr.’s 1985 will copy from which the grandchildren benefited, mandates that the grandchildren pay reasonable attorney fees to him. According to the record, the grandchildren did not obtain separate counsel until after the will copy was probated. KRS 412.070 states in part: “In actions for the settlement of estates, ... if one or more of the legatees, devisees, distributees or parties in interest has prosecuted for the benefit of others interested with him, and has been to trouble and expense in that connection, the court shall allow him his necessary expenses, and his attorney reasona”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Raisor v. Burkett“In actions for the settlement of estates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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