King v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably 52 Ala. App. 224 - Eubanks v. Eubanks (1974), Beck v. Beck (1971)
2 district · 59 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 Taylor v. Taylor · Beggs v. State · Steiner v. Steiner · Turner v. Turner · Ryan v. Ryan
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The mere fact that the parties could not get together on the time when and the place where they were to have another ceremonial marriage is not sufficient to overcome the presumption of the common-law marriage and the evidence which we think tends to show that they had an actual and mutual agreement to enter into a matrimonial relation, permanent and exclusive of all others, which was consummated by their cohabitation as man and wife and by their mutual assumption openly of marital duties and obligations. See Beggs v. State, 55 Ala. 108 ; Tartt v. Negus, 127 Ala. 301 , 28 So. 713 ; White v. Hill, 176 Ala. 480 , 58 So. 444 ; Hunter v. Lynn, supra [ 256 Ala. 501 , 55 So.2d 849 ]; Barnett v. Barnett, supra [ 262 Ala. 655 , 80 So. 2d 626 ].””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.