Bennett v. A Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Marshak v. Marshak (1993), D & D Fuller CATV Construction, Inc. v. Pace (1989)
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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 Foman v. Davis · Burrus · Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · Lehman Ex Rel. Lehman v. Lycoming County Children's Services Agency · Cole v. Cole J H
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“grant a divorce, determine alimony or support obligations, or resolve parental conflicts over the custody of their children,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“directing and enjoining the defendant from any interference with the custody rights of the plaintiff”
2 later decisions 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.