Brown v. Brown

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• upholding family court’s decision to award marital home to wife as part of equitable distribution of marital property
• finding the federal law in effect at that time deprived the family court of jurisdiction over federal survivor’s benefit plans and required reversal of family court’s requirement that military retiree elect his former wife as the beneficiary of his survivor’s benefits

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• In Re Marriage of Gallo
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1988-02-08· cited 929×
• Wooten v. Wooten
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2005-06-06· cited 102×
• Donahue v. Donahue
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-09-25· cited 100×
• Bullock v. Bullock
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1984-08-13· cited 74×
• Hussey v. Hussey
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1984-01-23· cited 44×
• Sawyer v. Sawyer
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1985-09-17· cited 42×
• Nasser-Moghaddassi v. Moghaddassi
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-01-31· cited 37×
• Smith v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1984-02-06· cited 27×
• McKnight v. McKnight
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1984-12-13· cited 23×
• Cooksey v. Cooksey
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1984-02-10· cited 23×
• Toler v. Toler
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1987-05-11· cited 23×
• Tiffault v. Tiffault
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-02-04· cited 21×
• Coon v. Coon
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2005-05-31· cited 20×
• Martin v. Martin
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1988-10-31· cited 18×
• Watson v. Watson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1986-12-15· cited 17×
• Anderson v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-06-28· cited 16×
• Eichor v. Eichor
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1986-12-15· cited 14×
• Koenes v. Koenes
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1985-06-10· cited 14×
• Blejski v. Blejski
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1997-01-13· cited 12×
• Hayes v. Hayes
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1993-12-13· cited 11×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McCarty v. McCarty
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-26· cited 1,052×
• Orr v. Orr
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-05· cited 714×
• Parrott v. Parrott
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1982-05-26· cited 28×
• Bugg v. Bugg
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1982-01-05· cited 16×
• Carter v. Carter
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1982-01-06· cited 13×