Brazier v. Brazier’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2008
6 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 Nicholls v. Blaser · Simplot v. Simplot · State v. Torres · Speer v. Quinlan · Simpson v. Johnson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“likely to change in the future, ... there is no logical reason to deprive a judge of authority to prescribe a payment schedule containing future adjustments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toyama v. Toyama“suffer needless cost and stress of periodic proceedings to update their decrees”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toyama v. Toyama“a substantial and material change of circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toyama v. Toyama
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.