Commonwealth v. McLean

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a common law marriage is evidenced from verba de praesenti or, that cohabitation and reputation are circumstances from which the existence of a contract of marriage can be inferred, but that the requirements are not conjunctive
• finding that a common law marriage is evidenced from verba de praesenti or, that cohabitation and reputation are circumstances from which the existence of a contract of marriage can be inferred, but that the requirements are not conjunctive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-27· cited 120×
• Beswick v. City of Philadelphia
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2001-12-06· cited 7×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1998-12-08· cited 4×
• State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Platt
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1998-04-29· cited 3×
• Marino v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1992-04-24· cited 2×
• Turner v. Barnhart
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2003-02-20
• Africa v. Vaughan
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1998-03-19

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-20· cited 191×
• Commonwealth v. Colson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-04· cited 180×
• Beck v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-27· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. Sneed
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-22· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Cruz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-30· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-29· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Lawson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-28· cited 38×
• Bessemer Stores, Inc. v. Reed Shaw Stenhouse, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-14· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Ignatavich
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-10-05· cited 27×
• Boswell v. South Carolina Insurance
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-05-05· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Leonhard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-11-30· cited 18×
• In Re Estate of Rees
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-08-17· cited 18×
• In Re the Estate of Kovalchick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-07-26· cited 15×
• Smith v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1987-03-30· cited 4×
• Colson v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-27· cited 3×