157 Ind. App. 672 - Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 1991 · most notably 172 Ind. App. 255 - Geberin v. Geberin (1977), Bennett v. Knabe (In Re Knabe) (1981)
20 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 McDaniel v. McDaniel · O'Connor v. O'Connor · 152 Ind. App. 675 - Hardiman v. Hardiman · 151 Ind. App. 26 - Stigall v. Stigall · 151 Ind. App. 70 - Mathews v. Mathews
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . The trial court has broad discretion in regard to the award of attorney fees. ... In exercising such discretion, the trial court is not strictly limited to the present economic circumstances of the parties but may consider the ability of the parties to engage in gainful employment and to earn adequate income to comply with the court’s order.” (Original emphasis.)”
3 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.