Pearsall v. Folsom’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 1985
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Millar v. Millar · 45 Cal. 2d 872 - Sefton v. Sefton · Sleicher v. Sleicher · Gaines v. Jacobsen · Hahn v. Gray
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A marriage, within the meaning of the statute, is not a void or voidable marriage which may at once be annulled, but a valid and subsisting marriage."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A judgment of nullity of marriage rendered is conclusive only as against the parties to the action and those claiming under them."”
2 later decisions 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.