Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Husband, C. v. Wife, C. (1974), Du Pont v. Du Pont (1951)
25 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 Porto Rico Ry Light Power Co v. Mor · United States v. Standard Brewery, Inc. · State ex rel. Crow v. City of St. Louis · Townsend v. Townsend · Desloge v. Pearce
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.
“"Innocence and need would seem to be the only valid requisites for maintenance pendente lite, and, indeed, in the more modern view, innocence itself is not necessarily a requisite. It has come to be realized that while the marital contract remains undisturbed, the primary duty of support rests upon the husband, and not upon the public, and that a guilty wife may be just as hungry or as much in need, and equally liable to become a public charge as one who is without fault. Divorce is no longer an Ecclesiastical judgment for a spiritual offense or sin, but a necessity for the correction of social maladjustment."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The court may grant alimony to the wife for her sustenance pending her petition for divorce, and order and direct the husband to pay such sum as is deemed necessary to defray the expenses in conducting her case, whether the application is on the part of either the wife or husband, and shall protect her from personal restraint. The court, in the execution of the powers conferred by this chapter, may employ such compulsory process as it deems proper.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Husband v. Wife““* * * From 1789, and until prohibited by the Constitution of 1897, divorces were granted at almost every session of the Delaware Legislature, and amounted to approximately 500 in number. These legislative divorces continued with increasing frequency, notwithstanding our first divorce Act of February 3, 1832 (Laws of Delaware, Vol. 8 Chap. 144), gave to the Superior Court ‘sole cognizance of granting divorces’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilbert v. Gilbert
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.