Brawner v. Brawner’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Klein v. Klein (1962), Boyle v. Vista Eyewear, Inc. (1985)
43 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 Thompson v. Thompson · Jessie Thompson v. Charles N Thompson · Mertz v. Mertz · Rogers v. Rogers · Rice, Stix & Co. v. Sally
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The broad and all inclusive language of the statute is not limited in any respect, and does not directly or by inference provide that she may be sued by everyone except her husband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Townsend v. Townsend“belies reality and fact to say there is no tort when the husband either intentionally or negligently injures his wife”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Townsend v. Townsend
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.