Nelson v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably McAlpine v. McAlpine (1996), Holliday v. Holliday (1978)
33 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 Pitre v. Pitre · In Interest of DJS · Estate of Fadool v. Saba · Hillard v. Hillard · Russo v. Russo
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We find that Mrs. Brashear’s error in waiving her right to alimony pendente lite constituted a relative nullity. The nullity stemmed from an act in derogation of laws enacted for the individual’s protection and was not in violation of public order or good morals. Cf. Succession of Delesdernier, La.App., 184 So.2d 37, 56 . ‘This court has differentiated between absolute nullities in derogation of public order and good morals and those which are established in the interest of individuals. The latter nullities are susceptible of ratification, either expressly or impliedly, and may be prescribed against, while the former are never susceptible of ratification and can never be prescribed.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holliday v. Holliday
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.