574 So. 2d 688 - Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson (1994), 639 So. 2d 909 - Hemsley v. Hemsley (1994)
41 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · 498 So. 2d 328 - Dillon v. Dillon · East v. East · Deposit Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. v. Williams · 557 So. 2d 793 - Bowe v. Bowe
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have long recognized that, incident to a divorce, the Chancery Court has authority, where the equities so suggest, to order a fair division of property accumulated through the joint contributions and efforts of the parties.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“The matter rather is committed to the discretion and conscience of the Court, having in mind all of the equities and other relevant facts and circumstances.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“allowed the states to treat the military retirement pensions of their domiciliaries as personal property subject to state property laws.”
4 later decisions 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.