Ruffino v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 1997 · most notably 400 So. 2d 1096 - Deliberto v. Deliberto (1981), Bagala v. Bagala (1959)
27 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 Messersmith v. Messersmith · Tanner v. Tanner · Abunza v. Olivier · Slaton v. King · Succession of Farley
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... of the estate which they [husband and wife] may acquire during the marriage, ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"the prime objective of the Legislature was to have homestead associations secured by a vendor's lien and that it was never its aim to produce a change in the status of property from separate to community as the consequence of the placing of a secured loan thereon." 99 So.2d at 37”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there was no proof showing that the enhanced value of the separate estate resulted from other expenditures of community funds.”
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.