Reed v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Elder (1955), Oliver v. Oliver (1950)
3 federal appellate · 31 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 Murchison v. Green · Christopher v. Christopher · Clark v. Cassidy · Sellers v. Page · Morgan v. Morgan
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because the law presumes morality and not immorality; marriage and not concubinage; legitimacy and not bastardy. The presumption arises ... by virtue of the proof of the ceremonial marriage between the parties, and proof of their cohabitation as man and wife .... "The presumption as to the validity of the marriage can only be negatived by disproving every reasonable possibility. . . ." The invalidity of the marriage attacked must be shown by clear, distinct, positive, and satisfactory proof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson v. Watson“The presumption as to the validity of the marriage can only be negatived by disproving every reasonable possibility. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson v. Watson“one of the strongest presumptions of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson v. Watson
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.