Jacobs v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2011
2 district · 9 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 Pretlow v. Pretlow · Eppes v. Eppes · Clevinger v. County School Board
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts do not exist to guarantee happy and successful marriages, or to annul and cancel the effect of mere errors of judgment in the making of contracts of marriage. In the absence of fraud, duress or other improper, elements affecting such transactions, no relief can be granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to justify an annulment of the marriage there must be some clear evidence, circumstantial or direct, that the appellant did not intend before the marriage or at the time of the marriage to become in truth and fact the wife of the appellee ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aboulhosen v. Elawar
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.