Brooks v. Piela’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2022
20 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 Heistand v. Heistand · 30 Mass. App. Ct. 78 - Parrish v. Parrish · Bercume v. Bercume · Department of Revenue v. Mason M. · Buchanan v. Buchanan
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]hildren's needs are to be defined, at least in part, by their parents' standard of living and that children are entitled to participate in the noncustodial parent's higher standard of living when available resources permit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“to meet the child's survival needs in the first instance, but to the extent either parent enjoys a higher standard of living, to entitle the child to enjoy that higher standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McNamara v. McNamara“[t]o the extent possible, and consistent with common sense and justice, the modified judgment should take into account the earlier, expressed desires of the parties”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McNamara v. McNamara
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.