Ex Parte Threet’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Tompkins v. State (1987), Estate of Claveria v. Claveria (1981)
3 federal appellate · 77 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 Grigsby v. Reib · Shelton v. Belknap · Drummond v. Benson · Welch v. State · 55 So. 2d 800 - Fincher v. Fincher
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was held in Drummond v. Benson, Tex.Civ.App. 1939, 133 S.W.2d 154 , writ refused, that isolated references to a person as being his or her husband or wife constituted no evidence of a common law marriage. Similarly, the introduction of defendant as her husband to two close friends, and telling two or three others that she was married to defendant, constituted no evidence that plaintiff and Threet were living together as husband and wife and holding themselves out to the public as man and wife. Under the Texas decisions there can be no secret common law marriage as such. The secrecy is inconsistent and irreconcilable with the requirement of a public holding out that the couple are living together as husband and wife.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““What elements, then, need be shown to make a prima facie or tentative showing of a common law marriage ? In Texas, three elements must exist: (1) an agreement to be husband and wife; (2) living together as husband and wife; and (3) a holding out to the public that the couple are husband and wife.” (Ex Parte Threet, 160 Tex. 482 , 333 S.W.2d 361 , 364 (1960).)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.