8 Ohio Op. 5 - Fearon v. Treanor’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 67 state decisions

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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ Marriage is more than a personal relation between a man and woman. It is a status founded on contract and established by law. It constitutes an institution involving the highest interests of society. It is regulated and controlled by law based upon principles of public policy affecting the welfare of the people of the State. ‘ Marriage, as creating the most important relation in life, as having more to do with the morals and civilization of a people than any other institution, has always been subject to the control of the Legislature. That body prescribes the age at which parties may contract to marry, the procedure or form essential to constitute marriage, the duties and obligations it creates, its effects upon the property rights of both, present and prospective, and the acts which may constitute grounds for its dissolution. ’ (Maynard v. Hill, 125 U. S. 190, 205 .) ‘ ‘ There are, in effect, three parties to every marriage, the man, the woman and the State.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 9 Ohio App. 3d 263 - Vrabel v. Vrabel · 53 Misc. 2d 974 - Helfond v. Helfond