Sharon v. Sharon’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
2 district · 177 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Continental Baking Co. v. Katz (1968), 26 Cal. 4th 572 - Flannery v. Prentice (2001)
2 district · 177 state decisions — followed in 20 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 Graham v. Bennet
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And it is rare, indeed, to find a case at common law where any respectable court has held a marriage entirely secret to be valid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Milton v. Escue
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.