Freed v. Sallade’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1974 · most notably Dorsey v. Dorsey (1953), Parker v. American Lumber Corp. (1949)
25 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 Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Alexander · Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Watford · Sumners v. Jordan · Bell v. Tennessee Coal, Iron R. Co. · Sims v. Gunter
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * ‘The presumption of the dissolution of a prior marriage, whether by death or divorce, should be indulged with caution. We apprehend that such presumptions sometimes have been made with very little justification. A rule of law which allows an artificial or technical force to be given evidence which warrants such presumptions, beyond its natural tendencies to convince the mind, and requires courts and juries to presume as true that which is false, cannot but be fraught with dangerous consequences. In case there is a conflict of presumptions, it would appear more reasonable that that one should yield which has the least probability to sustain it, rather than that the one in favor of innocence and of the validity of the subsequent marriage should prevail.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. James v. James · Dorsey v. Dorsey
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.