Van Orman v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2009
22 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 Van Orman v. Nelson · State Ex Rel. Del Curto v. District Court of Fourth Judicial Dist. · Varney v. Taylor · Gruschus v. CR Davis Contracting Company · Chronister Ex Rel. Chronister v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * upon remand the district court has only such jurisdiction as the opinion and mandate of this court confer. * * * "The opinion of the court in the former appeal * * * is the law of the case and is binding upon this court on a second ap-oM * * * # * * "Whether right or wrong, the mandate and direction in the opinion is the limit and extent of the jurisdiction of the district court on remand. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paul v. Paul“The opinion of the court in the former appeal * * * is the law of the case and is binding upon this court on a second ap-oM * * * # * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paul v. Paul
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.