Beck v. Beck

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defining cohabitation to encompass \many factors which are necessarily involved when a man and a woman dwell together as man and wife\
• ‘[I]n order to constitute a valid common-law marriage, the man and woman, following their mutual consent to live as man and wife, must so live as to gain the recognition of the public that they are living as man and wife rather than in a state of concubinage.’
• “[I]n order to constitute a valid common-law marriage, the man and woman, following their mutual consent to live as man and wife, must so live as to gain the recognition of the public that they are living as man and wife rather than in a state of concubinage.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

33 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Piel v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-07-28· cited 41×
• Adams v. Boan
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1990-03-16· cited 41×
• Etheridge v. Yeager
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1985-02-08· cited 40×
• Myers v. Myers
  Utah Supreme Court· 2011-10-21· cited 36×
• Boswell v. Boswell
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1986-10-03· cited 33×
• Gordon v. Gordon
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-04-19· cited 29×
• Skipworth v. Skipworth
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-07-21· cited 24×
• Baker v. Baker
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1997-07-17· cited 20×
• Bishop v. Bishop
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1976-04-07· cited 14×
• Arrow Trucking Lines v. Robinson
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1987-05-06· cited 13×
• Downs v. Newman
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1986-11-07· cited 12×
• Devaney v. L'ESPERANCE
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2008-06-17· cited 11×
• Collier v. City of Milford
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-02-09· cited 10×
• Pugh v. Pugh
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1987-01-26· cited 9×
• Hall v. Duster
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1999-02-05· cited 9×
• Krug v. Krug
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1974-06-20· cited 6×
• Dyess v. Dyess
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2012-04-13· cited 6×
• Linda Lee Cochran v. Joseph P. Chapman.
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2011-09-16· cited 5×
• Andrews v. Signal Auto Parts, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1972-12-18· cited 5×
• Reynolds v. Burkhalter
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1972-10-19· cited 5×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Standard Oil Company v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1964-05-28· cited 37×
• King v. King
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1959-08-13· cited 35×
• Rawdon v. Rawdon
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1856-01-15· cited 34×
• Topper v. Perry
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1906-06-19· cited 33×
• Slovick v. James I. Barnes Construction Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1956-06-27· cited 28×
• Goodman v. McMillan
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1952-08-27· cited 24×
• American Casualty Company of Reading, Pa. v. Devine
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1963-07-25· cited 23×
• Huffmaster v. Huffmaster
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1966-06-23· cited 11×
• Brown v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1964-01-16· cited 10×
• Jenkins v. Avery
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1952-06-19· cited 7×
• Whitworth v. Whitworth
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1951-10-18· cited 5×