500 So. 2d 1062 - Downs v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2013
6 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 State ex rel. Markley v. Baldwin · Beck v. Beck · 477 So. 2d 350 - Clardy v. Capital City Asphalt Co. · Gilbreath v. Lewis · 361 So. 2d 90 - Piel v. Brown
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"But where no such ceremonies are required, and no record is made to attest to the marriage, some public recognition of it is necessary as evidence of its existence. The protection of the parties and their children, and considerations of public policy, require this public recognition; and it may be made in any way which can be seen and known by men, such as living together as man and wife, treating each other and speaking of each other in the presence of third parties as being in that relation, and declaring the relation in documents executed by them whilst living together such as deeds, wills and other formal instruments...."”
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.