Scattergood v. Scattergood’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 1982
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cummings v. Cummings · Hernandez v. Hernandez · Colman v. Colman · Butts v. Butts
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the purpose of awarding attorney fees under the new dissolution of marriage law has not changed, in our view, from the purposes contemplated by its predecessors; that purpose is to insure that both parties will have reasonably the same ability to secure competent legal counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“final judgment of dissolution of marriage”
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.