Brooks v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2015
24 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 Merrill v. Merrill · Wanberg v. Wanberg · Bussell v. Bussell · Crume v. Crume · Jones v. Jones
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the ages of the parties; (2) their earning capacity; (3) the duration of the marriage; (4) the conduct of the parties during marriage; (5) the parties’ “station in life;” (6) the circumstances and necessities of each; (7) their health; (8) their financial condition; (9) the time and manner of acquisition of the property in question; (10) the value of the property at the time of division; and (11) the income-producing capacity of the property.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Laing v. Laing · Gilboe v. Gilboe
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.