Gordon v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1975 · most notably 16 Ill. 2d 268 - Peck v. Peck (1959), Schmisseur v. Beatrie (1893)
26 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Cartwright v. McGown · Graves v. Graves · Walker v. . Walker · Johnson v. Superior Court · State v. Goodenow
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The complainant seems to have been a woman of intelligence, and at least of ordinary business capacity. She appeared at the trial on her application for divorce. Wilson, the man she married, was also present, and she had an opportunity to consult with him. There was no difficulty in ascertaining whether she had obtained a decree of divorce, or not. If she or Wilson had gone to the clerk of the court, he would have informed them in regard to the matter. It was the duty of complainant to ascertain and know, before she entered into the marriage relation with another man, that she had procured a divorce. . . . Her marriage with Wilson before she obtained a divorce from Gordon was void. ... If the marriage of the complainant with Wilson was void, as held in the cases cited, we are aware of no principle upon which it can be held that her cohabitation with him was not adulterous. The marriage with Wilson being void, she occupied the same position that she would have occupied if she had cohabited with him without marriage. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meyer v. Meyer
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.