Brent v. Lebowitz’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2020
15 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 Turner v. Turner · Unkelbach v. McNary · Holley v. Holley · Charpentier v. Charpentier · Narcisco v. Brown
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accordingly, support agreements that are not in accordance with the financial dictates of the guidelines are not enforceable unless one of the guidelines' deviation criteria is present . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“substantiate its decision by making the explicit findings mandated by the guidelines, nor did it restrict its deviation to the criteria prescribed by the guidelines.”
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.