Bennett v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1948
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Profane, obscene, and insulting language, habitually indulged towards a person of a sensitive nature and refined feelings, may doubtless, in some cases, amount to extreme cruelty, as intimated in Briggs v. Briggs, 20 Mich. 34 . But this, as a general rule, would be more readily recognized, when used by the husband to the wife, than by the wife to the husband. “ In the present case, we see no evidence that complainant was a person of such sensitive nature and refined feelings as would be likely to be affected to the degree of extreme cruelty by any such language as the wife is shown to have used.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sturgis v. Sturgis
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.