Hamed v. Hamed’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1260 · 48 U.S.C. § 1613A
Relies on Banks v. International Rental & Leasing Corp. · Edwards v. HOVENSA, LLC · Government of the Virgin Islands v. Connor · State v. Lard · Pichardo v. Virgin Islands Commissioner of Labor
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fact that [the couple] failed to obtain a license prior to solemnization of their marriage-without more-did not render their marriage invalid,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MacDougall v. Levick
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.