State v. Trull’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1965
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Holmes v. Holmes · Succession of Fortier
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been decided, and repeated several times, that the requirement of the Civil Code that a minister of the gospel or justice of the peace shall have a special license for the performance of a marriage ceremony is only directory, and that a marriage that has been otherwise duly contracted and solemnized should not be deemed null for want of a special license.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Succession of Gibson
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.