Gress v. Gress’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1989
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 Nixon v. Wichita Land and Cattle Co. · Row, Peterson Co. v. Marrs · United Fidelity Life Ins. Co. v. Fowler · Ex Parte Henry Castro · Carter v. Green
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.
““Every intendment of law is in fav- or of matrimony. When a marriage has been shown in evidence, whether regular or irregular, and whatever the form of the proofs, the law raises a presumption of its legality, not only casting the burden of the proof upon the party objecting, but requiring him throughout in every particular plainly to make the fact appear, against thé constant pressure of this presumption, that it is illegal and void. * * * It being for the highest good of the * * * community that all intercourse between the sexes in form matrimonial should be such a fact, the law, when administered by enlightened judges, seizes upon all probabilities, and presses into its service all things-else, which can'help it in each particular case to sustain the marriage, and repel the conclusion of unlawful commerce.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. White
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.