67 Misc. 2d 982 - Anonymous v. Anonymous’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 33 Cal. 4th 1055 - Lockyer v. City and County of San Francisco (2004), Pickens-Bond Construction Co. v. Case (1979)
28 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Mirizio v. Mirizio
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the word 'marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word 'spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.