44 Ind. App. 51 - Compton v. Benham’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 1989 · most notably Public Service Commission v. Indiana Bell Telephone Co. (1955), Bolkovac v. State (1951)
5 federal appellate · 39 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 Cartwright v. McGown · Davis v. Mercer Lumber Co. · Boulden v. McIntire · Gregory v. Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad · Purcell v. English
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the facts show that an apparently lawful marriage was in fact an illicit relation in its beginning, the rule, as quoted in Williams v. Williams (1879) 46 Wis. 464 , at page 480, is: ‘A cohabitation illicit in its origin is presumed to be of that character, unless the contrary be proved, and cannot be transformed into matrimony by evidence which falls short of establishing the fact of an actual contract of marriage. Such contract may be proved by circumstances, but they must be such as to exclude the inference or presumption that the former relation continued, and satisfactorily prove that it had been changed into that of actual matrimony by mutual consent.’ ””
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.