Brewer v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably 2012 Ark. App. 483 - Tiner v. Tiner (2012), Romero v. Melendez (1972)
24 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 109 Cal. App. 2d 770 - Shaw v. Board of Administration · Pedron v. Olds · 157 Cal. App. 2d 375 - Prudential Insurance v. Broadhurst · Burke v. Downing Company · Clements v. Neblett
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, I have concluded that we should now give notice to the Bench and Bar that we will re-examine our former cases when a case like this one is next presented to us. For myself, I hereby give such notice. I think the weight of authority, and certainly the better reasoned cases, are contrary to our holding in Mabbitt v. Wilkerson ...” [ 220 Ark. 270 , 247 S.W. 2d 201 (1952)]. While the dissenting and concurring opinions in Harris v.”
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.