Wilcox v. Wilcox’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 36 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Every intendment of the law leans to matrimony. When a marriage has been shown in evidence, whether regular or irregular, and whatever the form of proof, the law raises a strong presumption of its legality,—not only casting the burden of proof on the party objecting, but requiring him throughout, in every particular, to make plain, against the constant pressure of presumption, the truth of law and fact that it is illegal and void.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 113 Cal. App. 630 - Chandler v. Chandler

2. “In a case arising under this provision, a case involving the question whether the second marriage is valid notwithstanding the former husband or wife is alive and the former marriage has not been dissolved or annulled, of course the element of good faith and belief of the party that the former husband or wife is dead is an essential element, for the statute expressly so makes it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lester C. Norris v. Pauline N. Norris

3. “is generally reputed or believed by such person to be dead ... is valid until its nullity is adjudged by a competent tribunal,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Vogel