Nolan v. Nolan’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1,141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,152 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Fischer (2010), Hawley v. Ritley (1988)
8 federal appellate · 1,141 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Briggs v. Pennsylvania Railroad · State ex rel. Special Prosecutors v. Judges · 13 Cal. 3d 835 - People v. Shuey · 59 Ohio St. 2d 29 - State ex rel. Potain v. Mathews · Tally v. Ganahl
Cited together with 59 Ohio St. 2d 29 - State ex rel. Potain v. Mathews · City of Hubbard ex rel. Creed v. Sauline · Hopkins v. Dyer · Blakemore v. Blakemore · Hawley v. Ritley
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 1,152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the decision of a reviewing court in a case remains the law of that case on the legal questions involved for all subsequent proceedings in the case at both the trial and reviewing levels.”
157 later decisions quote this exact passage“Absent extraordinary circumstances, such as an intervening decision by the Supreme Court, an inferior court has no discretion to disregard the mandate of a superior court in a prior appeal in the same case.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage“applicable to subsequent proceedings in the reviewing court as well as the trial court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.