53 Ala. App. 168 - Gamble v. Gamble’s Empirical Analysis

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63 state decisions

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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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he parties' future prospects; the parties' standard of living during their marriage and their potential for maintaining or exceeding that standard after their divorce; their ages, sex and health; the length of their marriage; the source (or sources) of their common property; and in appropriate situations, the conduct of the parties with reference to the cause of divorce.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 57 Ala. App. 704 - Brooke v. Brooke · 367 So. 2d 481 - Anders v. Anders

2. ““The law in Alabama is clear to the effect that an allowance of an attorney’s fee rests in the sound judicial discretion of the trial court, who must consider, among other things, the earning capacities of the parties, Hewitt v. Hewitt [ 285 Ala. 516 , 234 So.2d 283 ]; Hodson v. Hodson, 276 Ala. 227 , 160 So.2d 637 , and the financial circumstances of the husband as shown by the record. Evans v. Evans, 278 Ala. 573 , 179 So.2d 320 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barber v. Barber