Nickell v. Gall’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 1996 · most notably Skulski v. Nolan (1975), 96 N.J. Super. 415 - In Re Adoption of Children N. (1967)
3 federal appellate · 25 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 In Re the Estate of Coe · Kopczynski v. County of Camden · In Re the Probate of the Alleged Will of Holibaugh · La Bove v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Morissette v. United States
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no substantial dispute that inheritance laws may be changed from time to time and that they speak only as of the time of the death. [Citation omitted].... [The 1953 amendment] was not a statute aimed at changing the general laws of descent and distribution but was an adoption statute designed primarily to prescribe modern procedures for adoptions along with their familial incidents and consequences. [Citation omitted]. [ 49 N.J. at 189 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n the construction of any testamentary or other document executed subsequent [to January 1, 1954], an adopted child shall be deemed lawful issue of the adopting parent unless such document shall otherwise provide.”
1 later decision 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.