Kelley v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2024
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 Bates v. State Bar · Pfizer, Inc. v. International Rectifier Corp. · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. National Mediation Board · Serzysko v. Chase Manhattan Bank · Morrow v. New Moon Homes, Inc.
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.
“'financial need, the payor spouse's ability to pay, and the reasonableness of the requested fees.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'a serious inequity ... manifest[ing] a clear abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1) A marriage which is not solemnized according to this chapter shall be legal and valid if a court or administrative order establishes that it arises out of a contract between a man and a woman who: (a) are of legal age and capable of giving consent; (b) are legally capable of entering a solemnized marriage under the provisions of this chapter; (c) have cohabited; (d) mutually assume marital rights, duties, and obligations; and (e) who hold themselves out as and have acquired a uniform and general reputation as husband and wife. (2) The determination or establishment of a marriage under this section shall occur during the relationship described in Subsection (1), or within one year following the termination of that relationship. Evidence of a marriage recognizable under this seetion may be manifested in any form, and may be proved under the same general rules of evidence as facts in other cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.