Curtin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1985
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Consolidated Underwriters v. Kelly · Barkley v. Dumke · Kelly v. Consolidated Underwriters · 30 Tex. Civ. App. 43 - Lawson v. Lawson · Smith v. Smith
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are also of the opinion that a marriage is a marriage in Texas, either at common law or when ceremonially observed, provided the parties are free to contract. If one party is not free to contract but such inhibition is not known to the other party and he enters into a contract fairly, such becomes a putative marriage. The woman is a putative wife and her children born therefrom are legitimate children.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whaley v. Peat
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.