Terry v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2014
7 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 Beckett-Iseman Oil Co. v. Backer · Boone v. Coe · Wesley v. Wesley · Dant v. Head · Maloney v. Maloney
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * by some authorities, agreements in consideration of marriage are distinguished from agreements made merely in contemplation or expectation of marriage, and they hold that the former are within the statute of frauds,, while the latter are not; but this distinction has been repudiated. “If the marriage is a mere incident and not the end to be obtained or the purpose to be accomplished, it is not deemed to be the consideration; but where, despite other consideration, the real inducement was the marriage, the agreement is unenforceable. * * *• the general rule has been said to be that, except for mutual promises to' marry, any promise for which the whole consideration or part of the consideration is marriage or a promise of marriage is within the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.