Todd v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1973
15 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 Worman v. Worman · Worman v. Worman
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That either party had a husband or wife living at the time of the marriage sought to be annulled.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Inasmuch as the legislature made paragraph nine a ground for divorce it expressly recognized that the ceremony possessed some requisites of a marital status. And, too, we know of no constitutional restrictions to prevent the legislature from placing the financial burden on the one who creates the unfortunate situation, even though there be no marriage in law. He, who may be guilty, is in poor grace to confess his wrongdoing and say a court of equity is powerless to require him to bear the burden of restoring the former status."”
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.