Watkinson v. Watkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1994
12 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Thompson v. Whitman · Frederick Bell v. Mary G Bell · German Savings Loan Society v. Dora May Dormitzer L B · August Streitwolf v. Elizabeth Streitwolf
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I think at this day, with the light of common knowledge on the subject of obtaining divorces based on unsubstantial residence and extraterritorial service of process, that the wholesome rule should be and is that a person who proposes to intermarry with another who has been divorced, should be held to be bound to inquire fully into the decree of divorce, and when it is based upon extraterritorial service of process to inquire carefully into the necessary basic fact of domicile on the part of the complaining spouse and require strict proof on that subject. That burthen imposes no greater hardship on the proposed new spouse than is imposed on every person who proposes to make a purchase of land. Many of our titles to land depend entirely upon facts not appearing upon the record matters strictly in pais, into which the purchaser is bound to inquire and it is no greater hardship to put the same sort of burden on the person proposing to marry a divorced person.”
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.