Dale v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 1998 · most notably Bell v. State (1971), Lefkoff v. Sicro (1939)
1 federal appellate · 42 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 City of Atlanta v. Gate City Gas Light Co. · Hutchins v. Kimmell · Askew v. Dupree · Phillips v. Solomon · People v. Lambert
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By the common law and the law of this State, a mutual agreement to be husband and wife, by parties able to contract, followed by cohabitation, is recognized as a valid marriage.” Dale v. State, 88 Ga. 552, 556 ( 15 S. E. 287 ).”
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.