Renfrow v. Renfrow’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1994 · most notably Gonzalez v. Satrustegui (1994), Lefkoff v. Sicro (1939)
1 district · 25 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 Meister v. Moore · Hall v. United States · State v. Walker · Johnson v. Johnson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a marriage contract need not be evidenced by writing, and of course it need not be, we can conceive of no reason why it may not, like many other civil contracts, be evidenced by acts and conduct from which its making ore terms may be presumed.” (p. 280.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cain v. Cain
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.