Nicholson v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently November 1990 · most notably 40 Md. App. 1 - Klein v. Whitehead (1978), Anderson v. Anderson (1979)
68 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Gerald v. City of Boston · Earle v. Earle · Cavanaugh v. Smith · Nealis v. Dicks · Adams v. Adams
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The inherent common law power of all courts to vacate or modify their judgments, for good cause shown in a direct proceeding for that purpose, is too firmly settled, both upon principle and authority, to justify further discussion.””
1 later decision 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.