Hewitt v. Hewitt

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• in awarding attorney’s fees, a trial court must use judicial, not arbitrary, discretion
• a plurality opinion reversing this court's reversal of a $100,000 award of attorney fees to the wife's attorney based on the testimony of the attorney and recognizing that no evidence of the reasonableness of the award is required

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ex Parte James
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1999-11-19· cited 39×
• Body v. Body
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1971-12-22· cited 32×
• Gamble v. Gamble
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1974-06-05· cited 32×
• Horsley v. Horsley
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1973-05-02· cited 24×
• Clutts v. Clutts
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1974-12-11· cited 20×
• Bush v. Bush
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2000-10-06· cited 19×
• Kohn v. Kohn
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1974-02-13· cited 14×
• Lipham v. Lipham
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1973-08-08· cited 11×
• Hawkins v. Hawkins
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1977-06-01· cited 11×
• Hicks v. Hicks
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1974-06-12· cited 11×
• Clary v. Clary
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1975-12-03· cited 9×
• Smith v. Smith
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1976-04-07· cited 5×
• Vardaman v. Vardaman
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2014-11-07· cited 5×
• Creel v. Creel
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2003-08-29· cited 3×
• Williams v. Williams
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1982-03-17· cited 3×
• Hardiman v. Hardiman
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1972-08-09· cited 2×
• Moore v. Moore
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2001-03-23· cited 2×
• Barber v. Barber
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1977-06-01· cited 1×
• Fincher v. Watts
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2000-02-18

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Owens v. Owens
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1967-06-22· cited 64×
• White v. White
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1965-11-18· cited 15×
• Maddox v. Maddox
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1967-06-29· cited 11×
• McBee v. McBee
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1956-12-21· cited 10×
• Fitts v. Fitts
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1968-12-12· cited 9×
• Downs v. Downs
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1953-12-17· cited 8×