Nehring v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Washakie County School District Number One v. Herschler (1980), Leithead v. American Colloid Co. (1986)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 56 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257
Relies on Hicks v. Miranda · Silver v. Silver · 8 Cal. 3d 855 - Brown v. Merlo · 45 Cal. 2d 421 - Emery v. Emery · Ohio Ex Rel. Eaton v. Price
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ll laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Repeals by implication are not favored [and] the party so asserting bears “the burden of demonstrating beyond question that the legislative body by its later action evinced an unequivocal purpose of effecting a repeal.” * * * What must be shown is that the latter statute is so repugnant to the earlier one that the two cannot stand together, or that the whole subject of the earlier statute is covered by the latter one having the same object, clearly intending to prescribe the only rules applicable to the subject.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McArtor v. State · Alberts v. State“"* * * Further, cognizant that the determination is ours to make, we conclude that in consideration of all the factors and any prior reliances involved, our holding should be applied prospectively only, i.e., to this action and all causes of action accruing after 30 days following the date of this decision. [Citations.]" Nehring v. Russell, supra, 582 P.2d at 80 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.