Brown v. Tan’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2006
22 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 Montano v. United States · 383 So. 2d 1134 - Hegler v. Hegler · 378 So. 2d 812 - Trujillo v. Trujillo · Reeve v. Reeve · 253 So. 2d 435 - Crane v. Hayes
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that the original divorce decree ... was obtained in Florida does not constitute `sufficient connection' to satisfy the requirement of [§ 61.1308(1)(b)1].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“habeas corpus is a proper proceeding to obtain custody of a child wrongfully withheld”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.