Brophy v. Brophy’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2013
11 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 Cobb v. Harrington · Hutcherson v. Sovereign Camp · Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc. v. Campesi · Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc. v. Campesi
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“James Brophy’s obligation to pay is based upon a written property settlement agreement incorporated into the divorce decree of 1967. The determinative date is not 1967, but 1978, the year in which the instant suit was filed. Since the cause of action arose subsequent to the 1977 amendment to Article 2226, the award of attorney’s fees for services rendered in enforcing the parties agreement was proper. It is apparent from the record that the entire amount awarded by the court for contractual alimony represented payments which became delinquent following the effective date of the amendment. Both the breach of the contract and the suit to recover the delinquent payments occurred after the effective date of the amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brophy v. Brophy
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.