Marshall v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2012
8 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 Walker v. Matthews · Vaughan v. Vaughan · Harrison v. G. & K. Investment Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There :was some evidence from which a person by conjecture or' inference may have Considered that Annie was guilty of ’occasional acts of adultery, but there was no- clear- and satisfactory proof - of such acts. 31 C.J.S. 457. Further it has been stated, “It is generally' held that adultery on the part- of either spouse is not a bar to taking a distributive share in the-estate of the deceased.” 71 A.L.R. 282 . See also 26A C.J.S. 640. 243 Miss. at 479 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rowell v. Rowell“Our Court has stated that generally wilful desertion or abandonment is held to estop a spouse from inheriting from the other. ... It has been held numerous .times that a bigamous marriage - will estop one from .■inheriting from'his. or her spouse. 243 Miss. at 478 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rowell v. Rowell
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.