Brimson v. Brimson’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1986
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 Jenkins v. Jenkins
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are several parcels of real estate owned by entirety by Dr. Brimson and Mrs. Brimson, and acquired subsequent to the effective date of Act No. 340 of 1947 (see § 34-1215 Ark. Stats.). Such real estate— with the exception of the 5-acre tract hereinafter to be discussed — may be sold on order of the Court, on motion of either party, and the net proceeds divided equally. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yancey v. Yancey
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.