Darling v. Dent’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 1981 · most notably Henderson v. Henderson (1952), Evatt v. Miller (1914)
23 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 Hutchins v. Kimmell · 9 Tex. Civ. App. 543 - Ingersol v. McWillie · Fletcher v. Eagle · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Hitt · Saint Louis & North Arkansas Railroad v. Midkiff
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While it is true that, if it be shown that the relations between Darling and Mrs. Williams were illicit in the beginning, the burden is upon those asserting a valid marriage agreement to show that such an agreement was afterwards entered into, still there is no presumption that the relationship continued to be illicit. It is a matter of proof, and not of presumption, whether the relationship continued to be illicit, or whether it was changed to a legal and moral status. Whatever presumptions are indulged are in favor of the legitimacy of such relationship. ””
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.