White v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 1990 · most notably McClurkin v. McClurkin (1921), Evans v. Evans (1917)
42 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 Blackburn v. Crawfords · Beggs v. State · Caujolle v. Ferrié · Tarleton v. Johnson · Martin v. King
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be followed by public recognition of the existence of the 'marriage' and cohabitation or mutual assumption openly of marital duties and obligations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Heckler
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.