Ormachea v. Ormachea’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably University of Nevada v. Tarkanian (1994), Fletcher v. Fletcher (1973)
78 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 Waters of Manse Spring · Lake v. Bender · Barrett v. Franke · Aseltine v. Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada · Magee v. Whitacre
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The 'legal operation and effect of a judgment is a question of law subject to de novo review.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The appellant insists that it [the cruelty] is not enough and does not establish danger to health, life, limb or the reasonable apprehension thereof. We think it does. We cannot always expect that a party in a divorce action will express himself explicitly. In such a matter as this we must to a great extent rely on the trial judge’s impressions. He sees and hears the witnesses, and acquaints himself with the way in which a witness expresses himself. He is in a better position to observe the conduct and demeanor of the witness and whether the witness tends to overstate or understate his testimony. Wittenberg v. Wittenberg, 56 Nev. 442 , 55 P.2d 619 . In this case the trial court had substantial evidence to make a finding, and we are not inclined to disturb it. Porter v. Tempa Mining & Mill Co., 59 Nev. 332 , 93 P.2d 741 ; In re Manse Spring, 60 Nev. 280 , 108 P.2d 311 . As an appellate court we cannot substitute our judgment for that of the trial judge in such matters, and will reverse only when there is no substantial evidence to support the finding of the trial court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shane v. Shane“Where a judgment is susceptible of two interpretations, that one will be adopted which renders it the more reasonable, effective and conclusive, and which makes the judgment harmonize with the facts and law of the case, and be such as ought to have been rendered.”
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.