Merrill v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “[f]or a marriage to be valid, it must be formally entered into by contract and solemnized before an appropriate official”
• stating that “[f]or a marriage to be valid, it must be formally entered into by contract and solemnized before an appropriate official”
• stating that “[f]or a marriage to be valid, it must be formally entered into by contract and solemnized before an appropriate official”
• wife was 36 years old, quit her job after the parties separated, first marriage of four years

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hartford Insurance v. Cline
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2006-06-20· cited 70×
• Lozoya v. Sanchez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2003-03-24· cited 35×
• Mitchell v. Mitchell
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1986-03-18· cited 23×
• Lewis v. Lewis
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1987-05-21· cited 21×
• Rivera v. Rivera
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2010-08-13· cited 12×
• Thorsten Ransaville Farrell v. Ana Farrell
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2015-01-30· cited 10×
• Battishill v. Ingram
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2023-08-15· cited 2×
• Dion v. Rieser
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2012-06-14· cited 1×
• Dion v. Rieser
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2012-04-04

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hewitt v. Hewitt
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1979-09-19· cited 111×
• Hertz v. Hertz
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1983-01-11· cited 68×
• Hurley v. Hurley
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1980-06-10· cited 56×
• Fitzgerald v. Fitzgerald
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1962-02-28· cited 52×
• Parks v. Parks
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1978-02-07· cited 43×
• Ellsworth v. Ellsworth
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1981-12-11· cited 41×
• Brister v. Brister
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1979-05-14· cited 37×
• Kennedy v. Bond
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1969-09-15· cited 36×
• Ridgway v. Ridgway
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1980-05-05· cited 34×
• Worland v. Worland
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1976-06-22· cited 33×
• Scanlon v. Scanlon
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1955-10-05· cited 23×
• Ferret v. Ferret
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1951-11-05· cited 19×
• Dominguez v. Cruz
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1980-09-16· cited 18×
• Weaver v. Weaver
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1983-08-10· cited 17×
• Hazelwood v. Hazelwood
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1976-11-15· cited 16×
• Lauderdale Ex Rel. Leyba v. Hydro Conduit Corp.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1976-09-28· cited 9×
• Matter of Estate of Lamb
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1982-11-01· cited 8×
• In Matter of Estate of Lord
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1979-11-21· cited 5×