State v. Worthingham’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1977 · most notably White v. White (1890), Hulett v. Carey (1896)
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Hutchins v. Kimmell
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.
““Though the intercourse between the parents may have been admittedly wrongful and illicit in its inception, because of some illegal impediment to marriage, yet after its removal, slight circumstances may, and ought, in a doubtful case, to be pressed into the service for showing that the parties have converted what was at first unlawful, into a subsequent lawful union.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swartz v. State
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.