Brucker v. Brucker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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

1. ““from time to time after considering all relevant factors including the financial resources of both parties may order a party to pay a reasonable amount for the cost to the other party of maintaining or defending any proceeding under [the Dissolution of Marriage statutes] and for attorney’s fees, including sums for legal services rendered and costs incurred prior to the commencement of the proceeding or after entry of judgment.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Meierer v. Meierer · Liberman v. Liberman

2. “The non-appealing party may not know that the appellant plans to appeal until the notice of appeal is filed. In a court-tried case, a motion for new trial is not required. Rule 73.01 (l)(c). An appealing party can wait until judgment becomes final and then, within ten days, file a notice of appeal. Rule 81.04(a). In this situation, the non-appealing party would not realize until after the judgment had become final diat attorney’s fees for appeal would be necessary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Amburn v. Aldridge