Hodge v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Nor does the evidence showing a living together as husband and wife, and common reputation, conclusively establish the fact of marriage, where there is also evidence that later there was a separation between the parties, and one of them was thereafter actually married by ceremonial marriage to another person. The presumption of marriage based on habit and reputation is in such case, overcome by proof of the ceremonial marriage.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rosetta v. Rosetta

2. ““We are not unmindful of the presumption of marriage from cohabitation and reputation and, as in this case, the legiti macy of a child as a result of that relationship. But that presumption is overcome by proof of a subsequent ceremonial marriage, since the presumption of the validity of such ceremonial marriage is stronger than the presumption of the previous marriage by cohabitation and reputation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rosetta v. Rosetta