Brice v. Brice’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2013
13 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 Ibn-Tamas v. United States · Wheeler v. Wheeler · Moore v. Moore · Mumma v. Mumma · Hemily v. Hemily
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) assign to each party his or her sole and separate property acquired prior to the marriage ..., and his or her sole and separate property acquired during the marriage ... by gift, bequest, devise, or descent, and any increase thereof, or property acquired in exchange therefor; and (b) value and distribute all other property and debt accumulated during the marriage ... that has not been addressed in a valid antenuptial or postnuptial agreement ..., regardless of whether title is held individually or by the parties in a form of joint tenancy or tenancy by the entireties, in a manner that is equitable, just, and reasonable, after considering all relevant factors, including, but not limited to [enumerated factors].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. Powell · Ealey v. Ealey“[bjefore enactment of the 1977 Marriage and Divorce Act, property owned by one spouse could be distributed to the other upon dissolution of the marriage only if ‘some right or element of ownership, legal or equitable,’ could be found in the spouse who did not hold title ... The language of the new Act does not indicate an intent to abolish or restrict this long-standing approach to ‘sole and separate’ property of a spouse, vesting the trial court with broad discretion in making such determinations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“disproportionately high payments for home maintenance and household expenses by one spouse may create an equitable interest in real property acquired prior to the marriage and held in the name of the other spouse”). Our case law suggests that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Araya v. Keleta
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.