709 So. 2d 1274 - Bertram v. Doss’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2015
4 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 671 So. 2d 714 - Rogers v. Sims · Williams v. Braddy · 588 So. 2d 495 - Tucker v. Tucker · 598 So. 2d 921 - Murray v. Murray
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"After reviewing the record, we cannot fathom why the trial court ordered the mother to contribute toward the husband's attorney fees, regardless of the modest amount. The mother's monthly gross income is $1,472, and the father's is $3,619.86. The mother initiated this proceeding by filing a petition for rule nisi and for modification. The mother was represented by Legal Services of Metro Birmingham, which provides legal assistance to low income families. "In her petition for modification, the mother requested that the child support be increased and that she be allowed to claim both children as dependents for tax purposes. The trial court granted the mother's requested relief after finding a material change in circumstances. Regarding the rule nisi portion, the trial court determined that the father had failed to pay for . . . his share of certain medical expenses. The trial court entered [a] judgment against the father for the amounts that he owed to the mother. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The law regarding an award of an attorney fee is well settled: “ ‘The award of attorney’s fees in a [modification] case is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court, which will not be reversed unless an abuse of that discretion is shown’.... “Murray v. Murray, 598 So.2d 921, 922-23 (Ala.Civ.App.1992) (citations omitted).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Clearly, the father is capable of paying his own attorney fees. Given the financial circumstances of the parties, as well as the results of the litigation, we find it to be an abuse of discretion to require the mother to pay monies toward the father's attorney fees."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.