Benjamin v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably State v. Tandy (1966), Jlw v. Dcw (1975)
36 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 State v. Groves · Litzkuhn v. Clark · 52 Cal. App. 765 - People v. Delaney · Taylor v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. · Brown v. Thomas
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is pure hearsay, and not only is there no statutory authority for its preparation, we think its reception could not be countenanced as an exercise of the court's inherent equitable powers. * * * Nevertheless, if the record disclosed that this case had been decided on the strength of that report we would seriously consider whether we ought not reverse it in the exercise of our discretionary powers under Rule 79.04, V.A.M.R.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ . . . ‘It is too well settled to require citation of authorities that a party will not be heard to complain of alleged error in which by his own con duct at the trial, he joined or acquiesced.’”
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.