Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 1976 · most notably Preston v. Preston (1964), Goetz v. Goetz (1957)
32 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 Hayn v. Hayn · Walno v. Walno · Stegmeir v. Stegmeir · Harris v. Harris · Davis v. Davis
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule in this jurisdiction has always been that a division of property made by the trial court in a divorce action will not be disturbed on appellate review unless it is clearly made to appear the trial court’s action in making that division amounted to an abuse of discretion.” (p. 253.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ward v. Ward · Perry v. Perry““The effect of voluntary cohabitation after acts of cruelty on the part of one spouse as evidencing condonation of the offense by the other stands upon a different basis than cohabitation after knowledge of adultery on the part of one spouse. Cruelty as a ground for divorce is generally a course of conduct rather than a single act. The rule is that sexual cohabitation after acts of cruelty cannot be considered as condonation in the sense in which it would be after an act of adultery. The effort to endure unkind treatment as long as possible is commendable; and it is obviously a just rule that the patient endurance by one spouse of the continuing ill treatment of the other should never be allowed to weaken his or her right to relief.” (p. 252.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Saint v. Saint““When a divorce is granted the court shall make provision for the guardianship, custody, support and education of the minor children of the marriage, and may modify or change any order in this respect whenever circumstances render such change proper.” (See the many cases cited thereunder and Brown v. Brown, 171 Kan. 249, 253 , 232 P. 2d 603 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Effland v. Effland
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.