Beacher v. Baecher’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2009
7 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 Catlett v. Chestnut, as Exr. · Leblanc v. Yawn · Wagner Estate · Hamilton v. Morgan · Hooper v. Stokes, as Exr.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“, the facts of those cases appear to be peculiarly distinguishable from the case sub judice in that the parties there resumed cohabitation at or about the time of the entry of their respective divorce decrees and were, in both cases, in doubt as to whether the divorce was effective as terminating their respective marriages. Here, there is no doubt that the parties knew that they had been divorced. In addition, the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"... if they remarry each other it can be by official ceremony, or a common law marriage. Rather than reject the efforts of such divorced parties to remarry (by the lawful means of common law marriage) the policy of the law and of the courts is to lend assistance and protection to such married couples in extending or renewing a lawful union... ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"`In such case we think that the law's role of mere toleration of the common law relationship should be reversed and the status of remarriage favored, even if acquired with common law informality.'" In re Beacher's Estate, supra, page 843.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.