Norton v. Moren’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1958
21 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 May v. May · Horton v. . Cantwell · In re Estate of Ladd · Dohn's Exr. v. Dohn · Colt v. Colt
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is nothing in the will to justify the inference that the testatrix intended to dispose of the income in the same way as the corpus. On the contrary, the fact that she dealt with the income and corpus in separate clauses, and used no language suggesting that the two classes of property should pass in the same way, would seem to indicate a difference in plan and purpose to place each on a separate 'and independent footing.””
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.