Brooks v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
47
cited by 47 later decisions
2
states following
December 2016
most recently cited
47 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kelly v. Kelly · Farrar v. Farrar · Devorak v. Patterson · Goodman v. Memphis Park Commission · Dwight v. Dwight
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an obligor is willfully and voluntarily unemployed or underemployed, child support shall be calculated based on a determination of potential income, as evidenced by educational level and/or previous work experience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Demers v. Demers“must conduct our own independent review of the record to determine where the preponderance of the evidence lies.”
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.