Sims v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably Lefkoff v. Sicro (1939), Succession of Marinoni (1933)
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 State ex rel. Markley v. Baldwin · Grigsby v. Reib · Travers v. Reinhardt · Howard v. Kelly · People ex rel. Attorney General v. Beattie
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.
““A marriage shall not be contracted or solemnized unless a- license therefor shall first have been duly issued, and such license shall be essential to the validity of a marriage.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But no irregularity in the issuance of or omission in the license shall invalidate any marriage, nor shall this section be construed so as to invalidate any marriage that is good at common law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.