Thorson v. Thorson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2025
12 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 McGrath v. Kristensen · Williams v. Williams · Lang v. Bank of North Dakota · Matter of Estate of Hill · Sime v. Tvenge Associates Architects & Planners, P.C.
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.
“[I]n North Dakota, marriage is a relationship personal to the parties of the marriage. Under section 14-05-01, NDCC, Doris’s and Allen’s marriage was dissolved by Doris’s death. Upon the death, there was no longer a marriage for the trial court to dissolve with a judgment decreeing a divorce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jochim v. Jochim“In a divorce action, the equitable distribution of property is incidental to a judgment of divorce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. JOHNSON v. SNOW
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.