Fox v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Grode v. Grode (1996), Billion v. Billion (1996)
30 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 · Gross v. Gross · Davis v. Kressly · Krage v. Krage
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the court must determine what constitutes a reasonable attorney fee. This requires consideration of (1) the amount and value of the property involved, (2) the intricacy and importance of the litigation, (3) the labor and time involved, (4) the skill required to draw the pleadings and try the case, (5) the discovery utilized, (6) whether there were complicated legal problems, (7) the time required for the trial, and (8) whether briefs were required. Second, it must determine the necessity for such fee. That is, what portion of that fee, if any, should be allowed as costs to be paid by the opposing party. This requires consideration of the parties' relative worth, income, liquidity, and whether either party unreasonably increased the time spent on the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. Whether trial court abused its discretion when it awarded wife $500 per month for twenty years for her "depreciated human capital" which the court considered to be property? 2. Whether the trial court abused its discretion when it refused to discount husband's retirement fund to present value? 3. Whether trial court abused its discretion when it made an unequal distribution of marital property based on fault? 4. Whether trial court abused its discretion when it awarded wife $500 per month for twenty years in alimony, terminable upon either party's death or wife's remarriage? 5. Whether trial court abused its discretion when it awarded $2,700 in attorney's fees to wife?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kanta v. Kanta“the length of the marriage; the respective earning capacity of the parties; their respective financial condition after the property division; their respective age, health, and physical condition; their station in life or social standing; and, the relative fault in the termination of the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eichmann v. Eichmann
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.