Brewer v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably 648 So. 2d 359 - Allen v. Allen (1994), 641 So. 2d 999 - Briscoe v. Briscoe (1994)
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 348 So. 2d 75 - Pearce v. Pearce · Kendrick v. Kendrick · Vicknair v. Vicknair · 389 So. 2d 381 - Adams v. Adams · Davieson v. Trapp
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)o be legally at fault, a spouse must be guilty of cruel treatment or excesses which compel a separation because the marriage is insupportable.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The court found that the trial court apparently equated fault in a generic sense with legal fault. The court stated that,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he trial court apparently equated fault in a generic sense, i.e., imperfection, with legal fault in finding [the wife] at fault in the separation. In this imperfect world, all spouses have faults and a spouse need not be perfect to be free from legal fault. Brewer v. Brewer, 573 So.2d at 469 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.