Howell v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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

1. ““ ‘Such marriage may be proved by circumstantial evidence, and, since the presumption is in favor of marriage and against concubinage, the fact that a man and woman have openly cohabit- i ed as husband and wife for a considera- • ble length of time, holding each other out and recognizing and treating each other as such by declarations, admis- . sions, or conduct, and are accordingly-generally reputed to be such among their relatives and acquaintances and those who come in contact, with them* may give rise to a presumption that they have previously entered into an actual marriage, although there be no direct testimony to that effect.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Giordano's Estate · Tower v. Towie