Taylor v. Whitehurst’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1984
12 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 Foley v. Crow · Latrobe v. Dietrich · Hite v. Mercantile Tr. Co. of S.F. · Malkus v. Richardson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The mode of its performance and celebration was the reading by Charles E. Whitehurst of the marriage service as contained in the Catholic Prayer Book, and as stated in the bill, ‘when the clauses and paragraphs in said service were reached in which the parties are respectively asked whether he or she, as the case may be, accepts the other as his or her wedded spouse, each of said parties answered “Yes” * * * and that during the reading of said marriage service, as further evidence of their becoming husband and wife, ‘the parties in the presence of each other and of said witness, wrote their respective Christian names ‘Charles’ and ‘Claire’ in two places; as shown by the photostat copy of the pages of the prayer book which are made part of the bill; * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Milton v. Escue
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.