Nowak v. Nowak’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
408 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 408 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Mead v. Burns (1986), Breen v. Phelps (1982)
408 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 Panaroni v. Johnson · Rossignol v. Danbury School of Aeronautics, Inc. · Ross Realty Corp. v. Surkis · Edmundson v. Rivera · Weber v. Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
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 408 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] plaintiff can demur [move to strike] to a special defense or counterclaim.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“The grounds for a [motion to strike] may be that the facts, as pleaded, do not constitute a legally cognizable claim for relief.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“A motion to strike tests the legal sufficiency of a cause of action and may properly be used to challenge the sufficiency of a counterclaim.”
8 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.