Small v. McMaster’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Keller v. Wilson · Cain v. Bain · Grigsby v. Reib · Osterberg v. Peca · Ex Parte Threet
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an informal or common-law marriage exists in Texas if the parties (1) agreed to be married, (2) lived together in Texas as husband and wife after the agreement, and (3) there presented to others that they were married.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hether the evidence is sufficient to establish that a couple held themselves out as husband and wife turns on whether the couple had a reputation in the community for being married.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Small , 352 S.W.3d at 285 (citing Eris v. Phares , 39 S.W.3d 708 , 715 (Tex. App. 2001) ). Proving a reputation for being married requires evidence that the couple”
1 later decision 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.