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marriage validity

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 292 U.S. 216 - Loughran v. Loughran · 1934Most cited · 394 citing opinions

conflict of laws

Marriages not polygamous or incestuous, or otherwise declared void by statute, will, if valid by the law of the state where entered into, be recognized as valid in every other jurisdiction. The mere statutory prohibition by the State of the domicile either generally of the remarriage of a divorced person, or of remarriage within a prescribed period after the entry of the decree, is given only territorial effect.

How often courts cite the case defining “marriage validity”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “marriage validity” — 394 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.