373 Pa. Super. 143 - Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2008
15 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 339 Pa. Super. 185 - Braderman v. Braderman · 310 Pa. Super. 23 - Remick v. Remick · 331 Pa. Super. 1 - Semasek v. Semasek · 365 Pa. Super. 409 - Johnson v. Johnson · Semasek v. Semasek
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although Section 401(b) of the Divorce Code allows a court to make an award of counsel fees, it does not provide any guidance as to how a court shall determine where such an award would be appropriate. This guidance is found in our case law, which has developed in two directions. Although many cases require the petitioning spouse to demonstrate that he/she is in actual need of the award of fees in order to achieve "par" in protecting his/her rights in the divorce action, other cases indicate that the trial court may be guided by a somewhat broader spectrum of considerations in deciding to award counsel fees. Johnson v. Johnson, 365 Pa.Super. 409 , 529 A.2d 1123 (1987) (Beck, J., concurring), and cases cited therein. The latter cases indicate that the trial court should consider all relevant factors, including equitable considerations. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n applying these Code sections both trial courts and this Court must keep in mind that the overriding goal of alimony in this Commonwealth is the effectuation of economic justice between the parties. We must, therefore, not require an overly mechanistic consideration of the relevant factors where to do so would result in an unjust or unreasonable decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““(16) Whether the party seeking alimony lacks sufficient property, including, but not limited to, property distributed under chapter 35 (relative to property rights), to provide for the party’s reasonable needs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schall v. Schall
How this case has been treated — in progress
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