Sorensen v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2018
10 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 Aetna Life Insurance v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. · O'Brien v. Elder · 12 Ill. App. 3d 995 - O'Toole v. Central Laborers' Pension & Welfare Funds · Hollaway v. Selvidge · 29 Colo. App. 418 - Mullenax v. National Reserve Life Insurance Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he parties’ desire to make a full, complete and final and permanent settlement of all of their property rights and interests of any and all claims of any and every kind and character which have arisen, which now exist, or might hereafter arise because of the marriage relationship of the parties or otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall fix and determine all rights and obligations between [the parties], both parties waive and agree to indemnify the other party from any claims or obligations which may otherwise arise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“express intention of both parties that the Agreement shall fix and determine all rights and obligations between them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Napper v. Schmeh
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.