Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
122 F.2d 219 · 1941
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 1970 · most notably Lober v. Moore (1969), 267 F. Supp. 298 - Maryland Ex Rel. Gliedman v. Capital Airlines, Inc. (1967)
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States · Oklahoma v. Textas · Tolman v. Tolman · Towson v. Towson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever any husband shall fail or refuse to maintain his wife * * * although able to do so * * * the court, upon proper application, may decree, pendente lite and permanently, that he shall pay reasonable sums periodically for the support of such wife * * * and the court may decree that he pay suit money, including counsel fees, pendente lite and permanently, to enable plaintiff to conduct the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. Lee“[A]n existing final judgment or decree rendered upon the merits by a court of competent jurisdiction upon a matter within its jurisdiction is conclusive of the rights of the parties or their privies in all actions in the same or any other tribunal of concurrent jurisdiction, on the points and matters in issue and adjudicated in the first suit. (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mozick v. Mozick“upon a different claim or demand, the judgment in the prior action operates as an estoppel only as to those matters in issue or points controverted, upon the determination of which the finding or verdict was rendered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mozick v. Mozick
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.