Norris v. Bristow’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Tom Beuchler Construction, Inc. v. City of Williston (1987), Alexander v. Chapman (1989)
42 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 Mangold v. Bacon · Thompson v. City of Lamar · Berkemeier v. Reller · Clark v. Powell · Gordon v. Burris
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The former adjudication is not only the law of the case as to all questions directly raised and passed upon but it is also the law of the case as to matters which arose prior to the first appeal and which might have been raised thereon but which were not raised or presented. 5 C.J.S., Appeal and Error, §§ 1821, 1823-1827, 1964a, pp. 1267-1281, 1499.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lonnecker v. Borris
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.