Norris v. Barbour’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Gilmore v. Basic Industries, Inc. (1987), Ackers v. First National Bank of Topeka (1963)
8 federal appellate · 34 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 De Brauwere v. . De Brauwere · Eclipse Oil Co. v. South Penn Oil Co. · Krell v. Codman · Spalding v. Spalding · McCormick v. Elsea
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.
“In a contract under seal, a valuable consideration is presumed from the solemnity of the instrument , as a matter of public policy and for the sake of peace, and presumed conclusively ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'The Virginia rule is that ‘[ejxcept in rare instances, the power of a court to require one party to contribute to the fees of counsel of another party must be confined to cases where the plaintiff, suing in behalf of himself and others of the same class, discovers or creates a fund which inures to the common benefit of all . . .’ McCormick v. Elsea, 107 Va. 472, 475 , 59 S.E. 411 (1907), quoted with approval in Norris v. Barbour, 188 Va. 723 , 51 S.E.2d 334, 342 (1949).” 447 F.2d at 1394 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.