Brooks v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably State v. Streich (1995), State v. Ahearn (1979)
51 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 People of State of New York Halvey v. Halvey · First National Bank in Plant City v. Dickinson · Brocker v. Brocker · Armstrong v. Hanover Insurance Company · Grow v. Wolcott
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he appellant must show that the court failed to exercise its discretion, or that its discretion was exercised on reasons clearly untenable, or to an extent clearly unreasonable. Central Cab, Inc. v. Ironside, 126 Vt. 356, 361 , 230 A.2d 790 (1967); McCutcheon v. Leonard, 114 Vt. 38, 40 , 39 A.2d 348 (1944). So long as a reasonable basis for the discretionary action of the trial court is shown to be present, this Court will not interfere. Lattrell v. Swain, 127 Vt. 33, 41 , 239 A.2d 195 (1968); Grow v. Wolcott, 123 Vt. 490, 496 , 194 A.2d 403 (1963).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.