16 Md. App. 288 - Bracone v. Bracone’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2018
10 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 15 Md. App. 503 - Colburn v. Colburn · Price v. Price · Courson v. Courson · Reese v. Mandel · Rubin v. Rubin
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all cases where a person makes an application for a decree or modification of a decree with respect to the custody, the amount of support or visitation rights concerning a child or children of the parties, or files any form of proceeding to recover arrearages of child support or otherwise to enforce such decree, the court, after considering the financial status of both parties, their respective needs and whether there was substantial justification for instituting or defending the proceeding, may make such award of costs and counsel fees to either party as shall be just and proper under all the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e think it too obvious to require additional comment that the trial judge was empowered under [Section 5A] to award counsel fees to the wife's solicitor, that the award of $150.00 was 'just and proper under all the circumstances,' and that there was 'substantial justification' for defending the proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“modified to be commensurate with his present income and living expenses,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.