Lessert v. Lessert’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2023
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.
Relationships
Relies on Browning v. Browning · In re Hollopeter · 29 W. Va. 732 - Beverlin v. Beverlin · Cushman v. Cushman · Matter of Guardianship of Ambrose
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. That the party in whose behalf it is sought to have the marriage annulled -was under the age of legal consent, and such marriage was contracted without the consent of his or her parents or guardian, or person having charge of him or her; unless, after attaining the age of consent, such party for any time freely cohabited with the other as husband or wife.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cross v. Cross
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.