Baker v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2018
18 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 Forest Investment Corp. v. Commercial Credit Corp. · Etheridge v. Yeager · 409 So. 2d 858 - Walton v. Walton · 475 So. 2d 191 - Luther v. M & M CHEMICAL CO. · 460 So. 2d 1306 - Underwood v. Underwood
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[c]ourts of this state closely scrutinize claims of common law marriage and require clear and convincing proof thereof.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there must be a present agreement or mutual understanding to enter into the marriage relationship, capacity to enter into a marriage, and cohabitation as man and wife with public recognition of the relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When the trial court hears [ore tenus evidence], its decision will not be disturbed on appeal, if it is supported by credible evidence and is not plainly and palpably wrong.”
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.