Page v. Roddie’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 1990
22 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 McCann v. McCann · Turner v. Williams · Shea v. Aetna Life Insurance · Roberts v. Mosier · Brokeshoulder v. Brokeshoulder
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute applies where the parties, in good faith, attempt to contract the marriage relation, against which some legal barrier exists, and not to a relation immorally entered into.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The presumption of removal of prior obstacles in support of a marriage does not prevail where it is attacked and evidence introduced on either side, but the question then becomes one of fact to be decided in the light of all the circumstances and the reasonable inference from them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The issue of all marriages null in law, or dissolved by divorce, are legitima ir ''”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Byington v. Wilhelm
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.