Cinader v. Cinader’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2015
12 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 Steiner v. Steiner · 54 Ala. App. 479 - Caldwell v. Caldwell · 46 Ala. App. 27 - Ledyard v. Ledyard · 57 Ala. App. 615 - Smith v. Smith · 333 So. 2d 795 - State v. Hastie
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.
““It has long been case law in this state that §§ 30-2-50, 51, 52, Code of Alabama 1975 provide authority for a discretionary award of attorney’s fees to the wife. (Citation deleted.) Even so a request must be made, and evidence of financial need and performance of service shown before the authority of the court to grant such fees is properly invoked.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mersmann v. Mersmann“[A] request must be made, and evidence of financial need and performance of the service shown before the authority of the court to grant such fees is properly invoked.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“she should not be required to exhaust the principal for her support.”
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.