Tellez v. Tellez’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2007
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 Zellner v. Wassman · McDonald v. Lambert · 7 E.H. Smith 294 - In Re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Callister · Teske v. Dittberner · Brought v. Howard
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No action shall be brought whereby ... to charge any person upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage ... unless the agreement or promise upon which such action shall be brought, or some note or memorandum thereof shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kersey v. Kersey“The contract was not complete until the parties married, and the subsequent marriage was in no sense a part performance. The marriage itself was a necessary part of the agreement made upon its consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kersey v. Kersey“to charge any person upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kersey v. Kersey
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.