Eris v. Phares’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
13 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 245th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Cain v. Bain · Pool v. Ford Motor Co. · Davis v. City of San Antonio · Collora v. Navarro · Rego Co. v. Brannon
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) agreement to be married; (2) after the agreement, living together in Texas as husband and wife; and (8) representing to others in Texas that they are married. A common-law marriage does not exist until the concurrence of all three elements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gayhart v. Goody“[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“occasional introductions as husband and wife do not establish the element of”
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.