145 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Knode v. Knode’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The court below was entirely right in holding that, for the purposes of these proceedings, the fact of the defendant’s marriage to the prosecutrix had been adjudicated by the order for support entered January 25, 1939. At the hearing held that day the prosecutrix testified that she married the defendant on September 29, 1918, and that they had lived together as man and wife until May 20, 1938. He did not deny the marriage nor appeal from that order. He.cannot now, for the purposes of this case, deny that he married the prosecutrix as testified to by her . . . But if at the date of that marriage the prosecutrix was incompetent to marry him, or anybody else, because of her then having a lawful husband living, from whom she had not been divorced, and her incompetency to marry existed during the entire time the parties lived together as husband and wife, the defendant should be permitted to prove it and be relieved of the duty of supporting some other man’s wife. The incompetency to marry in such case resulted from her own act and was not caused by any act of the defendant.” (italics supplied)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commonwealth ex rel. Johnson v. Johnson