Sherry v. Sherry’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2012
23 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 Jones v. Securities & Exchange Commission · LeCompte v. Mr. Chip, Inc. · Durham v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. · Van-S-Aviation Corp. v. Piper Aircraft Corp. · Burrell v. Burrell
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) During the pendency of the action [for divorce or annulment], the court may provide by order (1) that one spouse pay an amount of money as may be necessary to enable the other spouse to prosecute or defend the action”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether or not to make any award pursuant to AS 09.55.200(a)(1) as well as the amount of any such award, is committed to the sound discretion of the trial court. The parties’ relative economic situations and earning powers are relevant factors to be weighed in determining whether to order payment pursuant to AS 09.55.-200(a)(1).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We therefore conclude that if the court wished to award attorney’s fees for Alan’s time it should have done so only after making a clear segregation of his compensable time, expended as an attor ney active in the litigation, and his non-compensable time, expended as client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doyle v. Peabody
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.