Hale v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2018
9 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 Blum v. Stenson · Save Our Cumberland Mountains, Inc. v. Hodel · Flood v. Flood · Sullivan v. Levin · McDowell v. McDowell
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he contention of the respondent is that KRS 403.220 is solely for the benefit of the client and not the attorney; that its purpose is simply to permit recovery of a part or all of the expenses incurred in a divorce case by a party suffering from an unfavorable financial imbalance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. McGill“KRS 403.220 permits a court to order a party to pay the adverse party's attorney's fees 'after considering the financial resources of both parties.' Such an order is appropriate 'only when it is supported by an imbalance in the financial resources of the respective parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. McGill
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.