Laplace v. Briere’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1974
19 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all cases of separation and of divorce, the-children shall be placed* under the care of the party who shall have obtained 'the separation or divorce; unless the judge shall for the greater advantage of the children, order that some or all of them shall be entrusted to the care of the other party."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brewton v. Brewton
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.