Teter v. Teter’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 58 state decisions

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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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the last decision made by this court in this controversy, it was held that there was no valid decree of divorce rendered by the court of common pleas of Muskingum county, in the suit instituted by Clayton’s former wife, for the reason that the suit was dismissed before a final judgment had been entered, and we were bound to presume that the judgment of dismissal was right. It was also held that the decision in Light v. Lane, 41 Ind. 539 , required us to decide that if the man had a living wife, his subsequent marriage was void. We held further, that the presumption in favor of the validity of marriage in cases where the parties acted in good faith and cohabited as husband and wife, believing that there was a valid marriage, was one of very great strength, and that it was not overcome by the evidence adduced on the former hearing. . . . “We are firmly impressed with the belief that it is our duty to carry the rule, of which we have spoken, to its full extent, and hold that the continuous living together as husband and wife of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton, their acts as such, their well founded belief in the validity of their formal marriage, the husband’s recognition of that relation after the divorce obtained by his first wife left him free to enter into a matrimonial engagement, the second wife’s firm faith from first to last that she was lawfully married, the declarations of the parties that they were married, the acknowledgement of the appellee as the child of the marriage bed”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 124 Ind. App. 198 - Estate of Dittman v. BIESENBACH, ADMR. ETC. · State v. Walker

2. ““Whatever the form of the ceremony, or even if all ceremony was dispensed with, if the parties agreed presently to take each other for husband and wife, and from that time lived together professedly in that relation, proof of these facts would be sufficient to constitute proof of a marriage.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Eddington v. Eddington

3. ““No peculiar ceremonies are requisite by the common law to the valid celebration of the marriage. The consent of the parties is all that is required.” 2 Kent Com. 87.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Eddington v. Eddington