married
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 74 U.S. 496 - Kelly v. Owen · 1868Most cited · 53 citing opinions
naturalization
The terms 'married,' or 'who shall be married,' do not refer, in our judgment, to the time when the ceremony of marriage is celebrated, but to a state of marriage. They mean that, whenever a woman, who under previous acts might be naturalized, is in a state of marriage to a citizen, whether his citizenship existed at the passage of the act or subsequently, or before or after the marriage, she becomes, by that fact, a citizen also.
How often courts cite the case defining “married”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “married” — 53 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.