State v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2010
2 district · 16 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 Sharon v. Sharon, 11991 (Cal. 7-17-1889) · Hunter v. Hunter · Hutchins v. Kimmell · Boulden v. McIntire · Teter v. Teter
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil contract, to which the consent of parties capable of making it is necessary. Consent alone will not constitute marriage; it must be followed by a solemnization, or by mutual and public assumption of the marital relation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Sutherland
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.