Cramer v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2017
16 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 Boddie v. Connecticut · Dickinson v. United States · United States v. Phifer
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The interest of the state is not only in marriage as an institution, but in the contract between the parties who marry, and in the proper memorializing of the entry into, and execution of, such a contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MacDougall v. Levick“memorialized in writing and by a person of responsibility and integrity and by one possessed of some educational qualifications.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MacDougall v. Levick“the ceremony or ritual which surrounds the act,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MacDougall v. Levick
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.