Mantz v. Gill’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 1977 · most notably Jones v. Kemp (1944), Ferguson v. Patterson (1951)
5 federal appellate · 30 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 Courtney v. Daniel · Mudd v. Perry · Brock v. Keifer · Fisher v. Fisher · Atkeson v. Sovereign Camp W. O. W.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be noted that the conclusion to be reached upon a hearing of the contest is whether the will shall be rejected or admitted to probate. There is no authority conferred by statute by which the court, upon a hearing of the contest, has authority to construe the will or adjudicate upon the rights of the parties or the validity of the disposition thereof.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where a second marriage is entered into in good faith, and the parties continue to cohabit without change during and beyond the statutory six-month period of impediment, this relationship ripens into a common-law marriage. Such marriage is recognized as valid in this state by our court.””
1 later decision 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.