Browning v. Browning’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2016
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 Wilhoit v. Wilhoit · Bowman's Adm'rs v. Bowman's Ex'r and Adm'r · Bell v. Bell
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.
“‘A “gift” in a common, ordinary, popular sense is a voluntary and gratuitous giving of something by one without compensation to another who takes it without valuable consideration.’ Bowman’s Admr’s v. Bowman’s Ex’r, 301 Ky. 694 , 192 S.W.2d 955 (1946).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. Adams
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.