88 So. 2d 604 - Collins v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “What constitutes it may be determined by the degree of one's culture, his emotions, nervous reaction or moral sense. * * * Any habitual indulgence on the part of one spouse that causes mental torture, undermines the health, or tends to dethrone the reason of the other, is sufficient to constitute extreme cruelty as ground for divorce.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 90 So. 2d 115 - Grossman v. Grossman