Shepard v. Shepard’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1962
4 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 63 Tex. Civ. App. 168 - Dawson v. Dawson · 49 Tex. Civ. App. 176 - Golding v. Golding · Lopez v. Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. · Thompson v. Thompson · Arendale v. Arendale
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is immaterial that the parties did not live together as man and wife after the marriage ceremony was completed. The doctrine is settled in this state that the marital status is definitely fixed, without more ado, when the marriage is solemnized in the manner prescribed by law. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berdikas v. Berdikas
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.