Clack v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2016
15 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 Grigsby v. Reib · Woods v. Alvarado State Bank · Schwingle v. Keifer · Tanton v. State National Bank · Bahn v. Starcke
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The evidence in the case not only will not support a finding that Melvin and Iona Williams entered into a common law marriage, but conclusively shows that they did not. In the leading case of Grigsby v. Reib, 105 Tex. 597 , 153 S.W. 1124 , L.R.A. 1915E, 1 , Ann.Cas.1915C, 1011, the Supreme Court held that a marriage at common law would be recognized as valid, provided competent persons mutually agree and consent together to become husband and wife and thereafter carry out that agreement and live and cohabit together as husband and wife. There can he no marriage in the absence of a contract.’ ” Rush v. Travelers Insurance Company, 347 S.W.2d 758 (Texarkana Civ.App., 1961, no writ hist.).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“can not be drawn from circumstances contrary to the direct testimony of a litigant (who asserts the existence of a marriage) as to facts which if true, demonstrate that no marriage agreement was entered into.”
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.