Gall v. . Gall’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently March 1974 · most notably Stokes v. . Stokes (1910), People v. . Priori (1900)
2 federal appellate · 119 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Caujolle v. . Ferrie · Platner v. . Platner · Clayton v. . Wardell · McCartee v. Camel · People v. . Smith
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ If any person whose husband or wife shall have absented himself or herself, for the space of five successive years, without being known to such person to be living during that time, shall marry •during the lifetime of such absent husband or wife, the marriage shall be void only from the time that its nullity shall be pronounced by a court of competent authority.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is sufficient if the acts and declarations of the parties, their reputation as married people and the circumstances surrounding them in their daily lives naturally lead to the conclusion that, although they began to live together as man and mistress, they finally agreed to live together as husband and wife.””
1 later decision 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.