Crawford v. Crawford’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2006
8 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 Smith v. North Memphis Savings Bank · Pewitt v. Pewitt · Rambeau v. Farris · Johnson v. Johnson · Bashaw v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e cannot agree that the doctrine of estoppel, as between the parties, is applicable upon mere evidence of cohabitation, acknowledgment or reputation. Nor can we assent unequivocally to the following statement in the Smith case: ‘And the principle is equally familiar that where persons have represented themselves to be married, or have assumed the relation of husband and wife, cohabiting and holding themselves out to the public as such, though not in fact married, they will, when it is sought to charge them with any of the civil liabilities growing out of that relation, be conclusively presumed to sustain such relation to each other, and will not be permitted to disprove or deny the marriage. [Cite omitted]’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bass v. Bass“A marriage contracted without bond and license and a duly authorized official as prescribed by our statute is void. While in some cases the husband or the wife and possibly their privies may be held estopped to question the validity of a marriage, an estoppel will not avail where the union was effected meretriciously, and with full knowledge of its illegality and impropriety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bass v. Bass
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.