Britton v. Britton’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Padilla v. Montano (1993), Brannock v. Brannock (1986)
48 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 Cave v. Cave · Toltec International, Inc. v. Village of Ruidoso · Corliss v. Corliss · Slade v. Slade · 13 Ariz. App. 515 - Baures v. Baures
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Application of a statute of limitations merely bars the remedy on a stale claim without determining the underlying validity of that claim or modifying it in any way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he standard [of] review on appeal is whether substantial evidence reasonably supports the factual determinations of the trial court”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garcia v. Garcia
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.