Jangraw v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1956
5 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 Jangraw v. Perkins
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A marriage between parties situated as these were is especially favored and encouraged by the law, not only that the most appropriate recompense may be afforded and the most effectual reparation may be made, but that the offspring-may be made legitimate, and the contracts and undertakings of the seducer made in contemplation of such a marriage are valid and binding. Bish. Cont. § 511.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hanes v. Hanes
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.