Rouse v. Rouse’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Eaton v. Eaton (1955), Wilson v. Calvin (1952)
28 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 Navarrette v. Laughlin · Rhodes v. Miller · Decuir v. Decuir · Hahn v. King · State v. Wenzel
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The principle upon which cases of this character should be decided is that no one can accept the benefits of a judgment and then be heard to assert its nullity and invalidity ..."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * the interest which the State has in the marriage relation, and its public policy as well, should dictate against the action of a person, who, like the plaintiff in this suit, would stigmatize herself as a bigamist and which also would result in injury to an innocent party like the defendant -in this suit who married the decedent in good faith and also to the children, had any been born of that marriage.””
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.