Rocha v. Rocha’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2014
16 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 Cranston v. Cranston · Combs v. Sherry-Combs · Broyles v. Broyles · Yates v. Yates · Pekas v. Thompson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“out of the statute by judicial construction/fiat. Husband contends that Wife had ample money to pay her own attorney's fees. We believe Husband has missed the mark completely in this analysis. The award of attorney's fees in cases such as this is not designed to punish one party or the other, it is only designed to allow for the payment of such attorney's fees, within the sound discretion of the district court, in those cireumstances where the expenditures become”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An itemized list of [the appellee’s] attorney’s fees was introduced at the hearing and [the appellant] did not object to its introduction. Reasonableness is, of course, a component of the test articulated in Pekas [v. Thompson, 903 P.2d 532, 536 (Wyo.1995) ]. Here, the only evidence of reasonableness was the itemized list which was introduced with no objection from [the appellant]. In the absence of an objection, the reasonableness of the attorney’s fees will be determined by the district court through the exercise of its sound discretion. In making that decision, the district court can rely on the itemized list and the directions provided by Wyo. Stat. § 1-14-126(b) (Cum.Supp.1996). The district court did not abuse its discretion when it awarded attorney’s fees in this matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Russell“Of course, the party seeking to recover attorney's fees bears the burden of demonstrating the reasonableness of the fees and must also submit an itemized billing reflecting the time and rate charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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