Plummer v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Ledwith v. Bankers Life Insurance (1952), Magnolia Pipe Line Co. v. Oklahoma Tax Commission (1946)
29 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 Mudd v. Perry · Hunt v. Hunt · Durland v. Durland · Mantz v. Gill · State v. Yoder
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A change in the phraseology of an amendatory statute raises the presumption that a departure from the old law was intended.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In Mantz v. Gill, 147 Okla. 199 , 296 P. 441 , this court said: ‘Where a second marriage is entered into in good faith, and the parties continue to cohabit without change during and beyond the statutory six months’ period of impediment,. this relationship ripens into a common-law marriage. Such marriage is recognized as valid in this state by our court. Andrews v. Hooper, 138 Okla. 104 , 280 P. 424 ; Mudd v. Perry, 108 Okla. 168 , 235 P. 479 ; Fisher v. Fisher, 116 Okla. 129 , 243 P. 730 , and a surviving husband of a common-law marriage has the right to appear and contest the will of the deceased wife.’ See, also, Andrews v. Hooper, 138 Okla. 104 , 280 P. 424 ; State of Minn. v. Yoder, 113 Minn. 503 , 130 N. W. 10 , L.R.A. 1916C, 686 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hess v. Hess““It shall be unlawful for either party to an action for divorce whose former husband or wife is living to marry in this state a person other than the divorced spouse within six (6) months from date of the decree of divorce granted in this state, or to cohabit with such other person in this state during said period if the marriage took place in another state; . any person violating the provisions of this section by such marriage shall be deemed guilty of bigamy. Any person violating the provisions of this section by such cohabitation shall be deemed guilty of adultery.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision 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.