Norris v. Vaughan’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Cameron v. Cameron (1982), Vallone v. Vallone (1982)
3 federal appellate · 81 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 United States v. Ludey · Stephens County v. Mid-Kansas Oil & Gas Co. · Dakan v. Dakan · Hager v. Stakes · Gleich v. Bongio
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a crop is made by the labor of the wife’s slaves on the wife’s land, it is community property, because the law presumes that the husband’s skill or care contributed to its production; or that he, in some other way, contributed to the common acquisitions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The principle which lies at the foundation of the whole system of com munity property is, that whatever is acquired by the joint efforts of the husband and wife, shall be their common property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Graham v. Franco
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.