Norman v. Norman’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 1989 · most notably 182 W. Va. 57 - David M. v. Margaret M. (1989), 160 W. Va. 610 - Murredu v. Murredu (1977)
25 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 Rice v. Rice
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that the wife has a small amount of property in no way affects her right to compel her husband to support and maintain her and their infant child given to her custody. She is not compelled to make good his obligation out of her estate, but is entitled to receive from him sufficient sums to support and maintain her ... in the station of life to which they belong, considering, of course, the capacity of the husband to earn money, and the income from any property he may own.” Norman v. Norman, 88 W.Va. 640, 645 , 107 S.E. 407, 410 (1921)”
1 later decision 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.