Leblanc v. Yawn’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Roberts v. Roberts (1936), McClish v. Rankin (1943)
4 federal appellate · 74 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 Travers v. Reinhardt · Kromer v. Friday · Marsicano v. Marsicano · Shank v. Wilson
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.
“"A common-law marriage or marriage per verba de praesenti, as distinguished from a ceremonial marriage, may be proven in various ways. The best evidence of such a marriage would of course be the testimony of the contracting parties or those present when they mutually agreed to take each other as man and wife, but it may be established by what is termed habit or repute. In other words, proof of general repute and cohabitation as man and wife will support a presumption of marriage when the agreement is denied and cannot be proven by the best evidence. 18 R.C.L. 428 and 429."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is true that a ceremonial marriage was discussed between them from time to time, but this fact alone is not inconsistent with the prior common-law marriage of these parties, nor does it overcome the presumption thereof arising from the evidence adduced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sufficient to establish a common-law marriage. It is in effect that an agreement was made in the beginning to live together as man and wife, and that such an agreement was actually carried out by more than ten years of cohabitation as such.”
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.