Peters v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Lefkoff v. Sicro (1939), Gossard v. Watson (1950)
34 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Grigsby v. Reib · Hulett v. Carey · Lambuth v. Stetson & Post, Mill Co. · Thorworth v. Scheets · State v. Texas Pac. Coal & Oil Co.
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 statutes provide a method of contracting marriage. That method is not exclusive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.