Beggs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably McClurkin v. McClurkin (1921), King v. King (1959)
3 federal appellate · 61 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Bishop v. State · Campbell's Adm'r & Heirs v. Gullatt · Williams v. State · Edgar v. State
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he parties [to a common law marriage] stand to each other in the relation of husband and wife, having all the rights, and subject to all the duties, flowing from a marriage in strict conformity to the statute.”
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.