Watson v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
January 1971
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Goset v. Goset · Gray v. Gray
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all cases where any husband shall abandon his wife, or wife her husband, and resides beyond the limits of this State for the term of five (5) successive years, without being known to such person to be living during that time, their death shall be presumed, and any subsequent marriage entered into after the end of said five years (5) shall be as valid as if such husband or wife were dead.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cole v. Cole
How this case has been treated — in progress
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