Nimmer v. Nimmer’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 101 Ill. 2d 526 - In Re Marriage of Kozloff (1984), In Re Interest of LD (1986)
41 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 Lippincott v. Lippincott · Caporale v. Hale · Rhein v. Rhein · Kiddle v. Kiddle · Rhodes v. Johnstone
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there is no bill of exceptions, this court shall examine the pleadings and if the same will support the judgment of the court, this court shall not reverse. In the absence of a complete bill of exceptions, the only issue on appeal is the sufficiency of pleadings to support judgment. Rhodes v. Johnstone, 191 Neb. 552 , 216 N.W.2d 168 [(1974)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The decree of a District Court in an action for the dissolution of a marriage, insofar as minor children are concerned, is never final in the sense it cannot be changed. [Citation omitted.] Thus the court has continuing jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Interest of LD
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.