Bradeen v. Bradeen’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2001
18 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 13 Conn. App. 300 - O'Neill v. O'Neill · 178 W. Va. 563 - Cross v. Cross · Malcolm v. Malcolm · Lien v. Lien · Guindon v. Guindon
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The term `abuse of discretion' refers to a discretion exercised to an end or purpose not justified by, and clearly against reason and evidence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“... the issue is not the name placed on alimony but whether the record supports the award.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]ategories (reimbursement and rehabilitative) are to be used as guidelines by the trial court for setting the method and defining the purpose of such payments. Misapplication of a guideline is not reason for reversal except in extreme examples of an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Wilson
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.