Nunn v. Nunn’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2004
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 State v. Reinhart · State v. Martinez · Torres v. Gonzales
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance Act is one of a series of Veteran’s Insurance Programs that have been enacted beginning with the War Risk Insurance Act in World War I. The program enacted precedent to the Servicemen’s Group Act was the National Service Life Insurance Act, 38 U.S.C. §§ 701-724 . That particular act specifically defined the term ‘parent’ to include stepparents and persons in loco parentis. Then why was the term specifically defined in the one act and not in the other? We are inclined to the view that Congress in framing the National Service Act concluded that the word ‘parent’ was a word that did not normally include within its meaning a person in loco pa-rentis or a stepparent and, therefore, in order to broaden the meaning of the term Congress specifically defined the term in the Act. However, in the Servicemen’s Group Act, the word ‘parents’ was not specifically defined because only the normally accepted limited meaning of the term was intended. It is well settled that unless the contrary appears, statutory words are presumed to be used in their ordinary and usual sense and with the meaning commonly attributable to them. (Citations omitted.) The word ‘parents’ used in its ordinary and usttal sense means one who begets or brings forth an offspring, and usually denotes consanguinity rather than affinity. Also it commonly refers to the natural father and mother, to blood relation.” 473 P.2d at 361, 362 . (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Fourth, if none of the above, to the parents of such member or former member or the survivor of them.””
2 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.