Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2010
19 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 Drawdy v. Hesters · Reed v. Reed · Griffin v. State · Longstreet v. Longstreet · 60 Ga. App. 889 - Chance v. Chance
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is the rule that cohabitation, illicit in its inception, will be presumed to have so continued throughout the period of cohabitation, yet if, after the disability of the parties has been removed by lapse of time or otherwise, the cohabitation is continued, and the parties thereafter hold themselves out as man and wife, if the original illegal cohabitation was had in the absence of an attempted ceremonial marriage, a new and valid agreement of marriage will be presumed to have been entered upon, in the absence of anything appearing to the contrary.” [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norman v. Ault“To constitute a valid marriage in this state, there must be: (1) Parties able to contract; (2) An actual contract; and (3) Consummation according to law.”
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.