Bossom v. Bossom’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Malachowski v. City of Keene (1986), Csibi v. Fustos (1982)
13 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Sosna v. Iowa · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon v. Lewis S. Rosenstiel · Leroy Armstrong v. Virginia D. Armstrong, Leroy Armstrong v. Virginia D. Armstrong
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n a case not coming within the exception relating to matrimonial actions, a federal court may still decline jurisdiction if the action is “on the verge" of the exception, when there is no obstacle to a full and fair determination in the state courts and the interests of justice would be served by allowing the determination to be made by them in view of their great familiarity with matrimonial disputes and the absence of any such expertise by the federal courts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.