Gibbs v. Gibbs’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 1957
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Payne v. Payne · 206 Mo. App. 646 - Smith v. Smith
Most-quoted passages
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“"The first question urged turns on a judicial determination of the words `naturally impotent,' being one of the grounds for divorce in Section 65.04 (2) Florida Statutes of 1941, F.S.A. "Payne v. Payne, 46 Minn. 467 , 49 N.W. 230 , 24 Am.St.Rep. 240 , and Smith v. Smith, 206 Mo. App. 646 , 229 S.W. 398, are two leading cases in the country on the point and both define impotency as absence of the power to copulate. If the power to copulate is present the possessor is not impotent though he may or may not have the power to procreate. This seems to be the rule generally approved throughout the country, it was followed by the Chancellor, and it is the rule of this Court."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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