Fuller v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably Coats v. Coats (1911), Sanguinetti v. Sanguinetti (1937)
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That a marriage, where one the parties at the time has a husband or wife living, is void, absolutely and in all its aspects, we suppose no one will question. It requires no judgment of divorce or of nullity to render it void. It is void inherently and from the beginning. Under our statutes, however, for prudential reasons, the innocent party is allowed, if he or she chooses, and by an ordinary action for divorce, to have the supposed or colorable marriage set aside and annulled.” (p. 585.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reese v. Reese
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.