200 So. 2d 171 - Bencomo v. Bencomo’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably 281 So. 2d 1 - Kluger v. White (1973), Lusby v. Lusby (1978)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Bushnell v. Bushnell · Thompson v. Thompson · Jessie Thompson v. Charles N Thompson · Taylor v. Dorsey · Rains v. Rains
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The metaphysical and practical reasons which prevented [suit between husband and wife] at common law are no longer applicable. The danger to the family peace and tranquillity here, as in the case of suits by an infant against his parent, has been grossly overemphasized.'"”
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.