North v. Ringling Ringling v. North’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1970 · most notably Merrill v. Fahs (1945), Kollar v. Kollar (1945)
22 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 Frederick Bell v. Mary G Bell · Price v. Price · Ringling v. Ringling · Ringling v. Ringling · Allen v. State
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * `surrender their rights, interest, dower, homestead and courtesy in and to the estate and property of the other in whatsoever form or manner identified for all time, and that the promise of marriage herein contained, and its consummation by the performance of marriage is accepted in lieu of all right or interest that the one party may or otherwise have in the estate of the other in any form, whether during their lifetime or upon the decease of the one or the other, either as heir, legatee, distributee, homestead, dower, or courtesy'."”
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.