Warner v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 1986 · most notably 38 Cal. 2d 676 - Lerner v. Superior Court (1952), 168 Cal. App. 3d 742 - In Re Marriage of Bergman (1985)
42 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 Sharon v. Sharon · Baldwin v. Baldwin · Kirk v. Culley · Spencer v. Collins · Loveren v. Loveren
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . After a pendente lite award has been made, the trial court retains jurisdiction to modify the award at any time during the pendency of the action when a change of circumstances occurs that alters the extent of the services required. . . . Should any of the contingencies occur that would preclude rendition of the anticipated services, the trial court could reduce the award to an amount necessary to compensate the attorney for services actually rendered. [Citations.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schwartz v. Schwartz“is not in point. In that case, an order awarding $12,000 extraordinary attorney's fees was reversed for the reason that the trial court abused its discretion in making the award without competent evidence to justify its conclusion that services of that value had been rendered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is in clear conflict with the holding of this court in the case at bar as well as the settled rule in cases of this character.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.