Brito v. Brito’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Worford v. Stamper (1991), Labowitz v. Labowitz (1976)
37 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 Gulley v. Gulley · Barlow v. Barlow
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The appellate court is not authorized to change or alter findings of the trial court unless the court has grossly abused its discretion. We are not authorized to change the amount found by the trial court merely because we might think it too high or too low. We must indulge every reasonable presumption, consistent with the record, in favor of the judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ramey v. Ramey
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.