Lester C. Norris v. Pauline N. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 1993
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Wetmore v. Markoe · Audubon v. Shufeldt · Carbone v. Superior Court · 41 Cal. 2d 497 - Dietrich v. Dietrich
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that ‘[a]limony does not arise from any business transaction, but from the relation of marriage. It is not founded on contract, express or implied, but on the natural and legal duty of the husband to support the wife,’ [Audubon v. Shufeldt, 181 U.S. 575, 577 , 21 S.Ct. 735, 736 , 45 L.Ed. 1009 (1901)] and it is the obligation based on this duty which is saved from discharge in bankruptcy by Section 17, sub. a(2) of the Act. Wetmore v. Markoe, 196 U.S. 68, 76 , 25 S.Ct. 172 , 49 L.Ed. 390 (1904).””
4 later decisions 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.