Orr v. Orr’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably O'Neal v. O'Neal (1996), 378 So. 2d 418 - Lovell v. Lovell (1979)
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 Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld · Welsh II v. United States · Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital · Orr v. Orr · Califano v. Goldfarb
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When a statute is defective because of underinclusion, a court has two alternatives: "1) The Court may declare the statute a nullity, and order that its benefits not extend to the class, and "2) The Court may extend the benefits of the statute to include those who are aggrieved by the exclusion."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The choice between invalidation of a statute or expansion of the scope of its applicability requires, of necessity, an ascertainment of the predominant legislative purpose underlying the statute's enactment. [Citation omitted.] That is to say, given the nature and substance of the statute, its relevant economic, social, and historical implications, can it be concluded that benefits should be terminated to the class of persons whom the legislature intended to benefit...."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hall v. McBride · Ransom v. Ransom“The purpose of alimony is to preserve, insofar as possible, the economic status quo of the parties as it existed during the marriage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.