Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1950 · most notably 236 Mo. App. 1223 - Thomson v. Thomson (1942), Maryland Casualty Co. v. Chamos (1924)
30 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Marriage is a fact which may be proven as other facts. . . . The law regards those as married, in the absence of a contrary showing, who hold themselves out by their words and conduct as man and wife. This is a part of the public policy of the State, and concubinage will never be recognized except where the facts affirmatively show it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.