Kier v. Kier’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Grode v. Grode (1996), Whalen v. Whalen (1992)
25 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 Malcolm v. Malcolm · Lien v. Lien · Huffman v. Shevlin · Johnson v. Johnson · Garnos v. Garnos
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining the proper interpretation of an agreement incorporated into a divorce decree, a court must seek to ascertain and give effect to the intention of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Laird v. Laird · Agee v. Agee“In exercising its discretion, a court must follow a two step procedure. First, the court must determine what constitutes a reasonable attorney fee. Second, the court must determine what portion of that fee should be paid by the opposing party. The second step requires a consideration of ‘the parties’ relative worth, income, liquidity, and whether either party unreasonably increased the time spent on the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whalen v. Whalen“Any past due support payments are not subject to modification by a court or administrative entity of this state, except those occurring in any period in which there is pending a petition for modification of the support obligation, but only from the date that notice of hearing of the petition has been given to the ... obligor[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Earley v. Earley
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.