Bennett v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 1977
23 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 Gates v. Gates · Johnson v. Johnson · Hoffman v. Hoffman · Morton v. Morton · Thompson v. Thompson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The reasonable value of such fees, under legislative mandate, rests largely in the sound judicial discretion of the trial court. (G. S. 1949, 60-1507.) The only function of this court is to examine the record in order to ascertain whether there is testimony to support the finding made by the coui)t. If there is the judgment will not be disturbed. (Citing cases.)” (p. 698.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brooker v. Brooker““After a petition has been filed in an action for divorce . . ., the court, . . . may make without bond, and enforce by attachment, such order . . . for the control of the children . . . during the pendency of the action, as may be right and proper, . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duffy v. Duffy““In this connection it also may be well to remember a trial judge is a lawyer in his own right and is not without knowledge concerning the value of legal services. It goes without saying the trial judge approved the order he made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Small v. Small
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.