Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) In any judicial, administrative, or other proceeding, the marriage of a man and woman may be proved by evidence that: (1) a declaration of their marriage has been executed under Section 1.92 of this code; or (2) they agreed to be married, and after the agreement they lived together in this state as husband and wife and there represented to others that they were married. (b) In any proceeding in which a marriage is to be proved under Subsection (a)(2) of this section, the agreement of the parties to marry may be inferred if it is proved that they lived together as husband and wife and represented to others that they were married.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Daniel v. Daniel

2. ““Faye testified that she and C.C. reached an agreement to be husband and wife no later than October 30, 1956. There is evidence: that they lived together as man and wife at the ranch from 1931 to 1955 when they got a divorce; that they immediately went back together and lived the same as before until the death of C.C. in 1969. There is testimony from a great number of witnesses who lived near C.C. and Faye that they visited in their home, received visits from them in their homes, that C.C. and Faye lived together as husband and wife; lived after the divorce the same as before.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.