Winfield v. Renfro’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Russell v. Russell (1993), Matter of Marriage of Moore (1994)
27 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 Cain v. Bain · Pool v. Ford Motor Co. · Texas Department of Human Services v. E.B. · Davis v. City of San Antonio · Brown v. American Transfer & Storage 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 1.91. (a) In any judicial, administrative, or other proceeding, the marriage of a man and woman may be proved by evidence that: (1) a declaration of their marriage has been executed under Section 1.92 of this code; or (2) they agreed to be married and, after the agreement, they lived together in this state as husband and wife and there represented to others that they were married. (b) In any proceeding in which a marriage is to be proved under Subsection (a)(2) of this section, the agreement of the parties to marry may be inferred if it is proved that they lived together as husband and wife and represented to others that they were married.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reynolds v. Reynolds“[i]t supports Renfro’s testimony that in 1983 (not 1982) she (not Winfield) held herself out as married. But Renfro’s version of the conversation is no evidence that Winfield held himself out as married in 1982. That is what this record is lacking: evidence that Winfield held himself out as married to Renfro.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reynolds v. Reynolds“(1) they agreed to be married; and (2) after the agreement they lived together in Texas as husband and wife and (3) there presented to others that they were married.” The jury was also instructed, in determining whether Murriah and Jack were married, that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Small v. McMaster
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.