Beckwith v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably 46 So. 2d 464 - Pawley v. Pawley (1950), Hopkins v. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation (1967)
2 district · 32 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 Hilton v. Guyot · John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock · Andrews v. Andrews · Peter Lee Atherton v. Mary G Atherton · Annie Andrews v. Kate H Andrews
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decree of the Idaho court may, however, be regarded as valid and recognized in the courts of Florida, and should be so recognized by the law of comity between states, unless there is some good and valid reason to the contrary. See Herron v. Passailaigue, supra [ 92 Fla. 818 , 110 So. 539 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It has not been made to appear by the proofs as a matter of law that the public policy, or any salutary interest, of the state of Florida requires the preservation of the pre-existing marital status”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“or that any principle of morality and justice was necessarily violated through the removal”
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.