Beckham v. Nacke’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1990
1 district · 9 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any such person shall join in marriage any minor without the written certificate of consent under the hand of the parent, guardian or other person under whose care and government the minor may be, or the presence and consent of the parent,” etc., “such person shall forfeit $300 to be recovered with costs of suit by civil action in any court having cognizance, by the parent, guardian or person having charge of such minor; the one-half of such penalty to the use of the county, and the other half for the use of the person who shall prosecute for the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eagle v. Nowlin
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.