Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Picketts v. International Playtex, Inc. (1990), 19 Conn. App. 402 - Sabino v. Ruffolo (1989)
61 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Brooklier v. United States · Mesa Petroleum Co. v. Kansas Power & Light Co.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he purpose which pervades [the UCCJA] is to provide that child custody determinations will be made in the state where there is optimum access to evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`resist imposition upon its jurisdiction' even [though] it has jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“appears to be in a better position to determine custody”
2 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.