Norrell v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2014
19 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 Rash v. Bogart · Raymond v. Pointer · Builders' Supply Co. v. Phillips · Webb v. Webb's Heirs · Gould v. Womack
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.
““the rule requires that the consideration be adequate, and the entire transaction must be fair, just and equitable, from the wife’s view, or that it was freely and voluntarily entered into with competent independent advice and full knowledge of her interest in the estate and its approximate value, and that the husband or his representatives have the burden in that respect.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Reid
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.