Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Jewett v. Jewett (2003), Maturo v. Maturo (2010)
67 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 Pasquariello v. Pasquariello · Whitney v. Whitney · Chanosky v. City Building Supply Co. · Costello v. Costello
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A constructive trust arises where a person who holds title to property is subject to an equitable duty to convey it to another on the ground that he would be unjustly enriched if he were permitted to retain it.' 5 Scott on Trusts (3rd Ed.) 462 p. 3413.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[S]upport award[s] may not be used to disguise alimony award[s] to the custodial parent.”
1 later decision 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.