People v. Stokes’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1965
18 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.
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.
““The marriage was a valid marriage, even if the parties gave the wrong names to the preacher, or the latter mistook the names. Men and women are conjoined in matrimony, and a defendant charged with bigamy or adultery cannot in this country base a defense on the ground that he or his wife was married under an assumed name, not his or her real name. In such case evidence of the real names does not contradict the certificate, since the minister or other person authorized to perform the marriage ceremony is not required to guarantee the fact that the persons married were married in their true names.””
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.