Brook v. Brook’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably In the Interest of De La Pena (1999), in the Interest of K.R.P., a Child (2002)
41 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District)
Relationships
Relies on State v. Standard Oil Co. · Lewelling v. Lewelling · Lunsford v. City of Bryan · Miers v. Brouse · W.G.W., in Re
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nless the court finds that appointment of the parent or parents would not be in the best interest of the child because the appointment would significantly impair the child's physical health or emotional development, a parent shall be appointed sole managing conservator or both parents shall be appointed as joint managing conservators of the child.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“both parents shall be appointed as joint managing conservators of the child”) (emphasis added), § 153.131(b) (“It is a rebuttable presumption that the appointment of the parents of a child as joint managing conservators is in the best interest of the child.”) (emphasis added). . See Tex. Fam.Code Ann. § 153.131(a) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Critz v. Critz“Before a nonparent may be appointed as sole managing conservator or two nonparents as joint managing conservators, however, a higher standard must be satisfied, requiring proof that appointment of the parent or parents would significantly impair the child's health or development.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re TJS
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.