Brooks v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably 24 Cal. 4th 1 - In Re Marriage of Bonds (2000), Langdon v. Champion (1987)
67 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Guin v. Ha · 17 Cal. 3d 342 - In Re Marriage of Dawley · Merrill v. Merrill · Wanberg v. Wanberg · Tobeluk Ex Rel. Tobeluk v. Lind
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“adopt the rule of law that is most persuasive in light of precedent, reason, and policy.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Vachon v. Pugliese · Matter of KLJ“The record shows that [Vem Brooks] purchased the apartment complex over two years before the Brooks’ marriage and that throughout the marriage, title to the property remained solely in' his name. Vern also made all the mortgage payments and the Brooks never resided at the complex. The evidence further shows that the Brooks tried, as much as possible, to keep their respective assets and funds separate. Moreover, the parties’ prenuptial agreement unambiguously denotes an intention to hold their prenuptial assets separately, “as if said ... marriage had never been celebrated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Compton v. Compton“[FJirst, where the parties demonstrate their intent to treat premarital [assets] as joint property by both [spouses] taking an- active interest in the ongoing maintenance, management, and control of the asset(s), Burgess [¶. Burgess], 710 P.2d [417,] 432 [Alaska 1985]; Wanberg, 664 P.2d at 571 , and, second, where one spouse’s contribution to the marital community, pecuniary or otherwise, has benefited the other spouse’s premarital property. Vanover, 496 P.2d at 648.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Julsen v. Julsen
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.