Howard v. Howard

How courts have described this case

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

• holding informal marriage cannot exist if one party is married to another person, even if statutory elements otherwise established

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Russell v. Russell
  Texas Supreme Court· 1993-11-24· cited 220×
• Villegas v. Griffin Industries
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1998-08-20· cited 59×
• Lan Ngoc Nguyen v. Dinh Duc Nguyen
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-02-24· cited 45×
• Husband v. Pierce
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1990-11-30· cited 33×
• Durr v. Newman
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1976-05-12· cited 19×
• In Re Estate of Bivians
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1982-10-20· cited 14×
• Prevatte v. Prevatte
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1989-01-23· cited 14×
• Bowers v. Getter Trucking Company
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1973-10-09· cited 12×
• Matter of Estate of Willard
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1979-01-18· cited 9×
• Whitley v. Whitley
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1989-06-13· cited 8×
• Orr v. Bowen
  D. Nevada· 1986-12-05· cited 4×
• Succession of Rodgers
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1986-12-03· cited 4×
• Netecke v. STATE, THROUGH DOTD
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1998-04-01· cited 3×
• Bivians v. Denk
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1982-08-19· cited 2×
• Sandra Perez v. Brian Williams
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2015-04-23
• Justin M. Thomas, Independent of the Estate of James Henry Thomas v. Lois Doolittle
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2024-10-04

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ex Parte Threet
  Texas Supreme Court· 1960-03-23· cited 88×
• Shelton v. Belknap
  Texas Supreme Court· 1955-06-29· cited 82×
• Consolidated Underwriters v. Kelly
  Texas Commission of Appeals· 1929-03-27· cited 49×
• Esparza v. Esparza
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1964-08-27· cited 33×
• Humphreys v. Humphreys
  Texas Supreme Court· 1963-01-09· cited 32×
• Associated Indemnity Corp. v. Billberg
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1943-05-24· cited 25×
• Walter v. Walter
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1968-09-05· cited 18×
• McIlveen v. McIlveen
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1960-02-04· cited 9×