Evatt v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 1996 · most notably Standridge v. Standridge (1989), Estes v. Merrill (1915)
46 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 Hutchins v. Kimmell · Furth v. Furth · Darling v. Dent · Leonard v. Braswell · Greenhow v. James' Ex'or
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law concerning marriages is to be construed and understood in relation to those persons only to whom that -law relates, and not to a class of persons clearly not within the idea of the Legislature when contemplating the subject of marriage and legitimacy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Atkins v. Rust
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.