Norman v. Norman’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin (1976), Phelps v. United States (1958)
4 federal appellate · 46 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 Crapo v. Kelly · Milliken v. Pratt · Commonwealth v. Lane
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All marriages contracted without the state, which would be valid by the laws of the country in which the same were contracted, are valid in this state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDonald v. McDonald“first obtain a license therefor from the county clerk of the county in which the marriage is to be celebrated ( 69) and”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Abate
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.