Offield v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Travers v. Reinhardt (1907), Hoage v. Murch Bros. Const. Co. (1931)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Meister v. Moore · Hutchins v. Kimmell · Hesseltine v. McLaughlin · 29 W. Va. 732 - Beverlin v. Beverlin · Eldred v. Eldred
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“wholly abrogated the common law in force in this State on the subject of marriages, and that no marriage or attempted marriage , if it took place in this State, can be held valid here, unless it has been shown to have been under a license, and solemnized according to our statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MacDougall v. Levick“* * * If such a marriage [common law] in this state should be held valid, it would seem to have been a useless effort on the part of our legislature, by certain acts passed, to protect innocent offsprings of an illicit cohabitation. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[h]owever this question is decided, it may result in hardship in some cases, but we think the lesser injury will come from an adherence to the statutory requisites than otherwise.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MacDougall v. Levick
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.