Barlow v. Barlow’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably In the Matter of Rodger A. Monson and Linda S. Monson, Bankrupts. Rodger A. Monson and Linda S. Monson, Bankrupts v. First National Bank of Bradenton (1974), 578 So. 2d 701 - City Nat. Bank of Florida v. Tescher (1991)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Nelson v. Hainlin
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.
“"Under the law of this State, the homestead is not something to toy with and use as a `city of refuge' from the law's exactions. It was provided for the benefit of the family as a place of actual residence, as a haven where integrity, patriotism and respect for civil and moral virtues is generated. It is the legal atom that neither scientist nor legalist have discovered the means to crack. It can be waived by abandonment or by alienation in the manner provided by law. Nelson v. Hainlin, 89 Fla. 356 , 104 So. 589 . * * * * * * The mere fact of being the wife of Barlow does not entitle her to homestead rights in his estate, neither do we find anything in the facts detailed that would in equity entitle her to the homestead. * * * Her conduct was in every sense consistent with abandonment and inconsistent with any purpose of return. Under such a state of facts she will not be permitted to return and lay claim to the homestead after Barlow is dead."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Stripped of excess verbal apparel the ultimate question for determination is whether or not in law, Lucie Hoage Barlow may be said to have abandoned her husband and the home when she left them prior to her husband's death”
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.