Rothman v. Berk’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1975
5 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 Spitzer v. Branning, Et Ux. · Cowdery v. Herring · Mott v. First National Bank of St. Petersburg · Wakeman v. Noble · McEwen v. Larson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But if a homestead was involved, then, under the law relating thereto, a widow would be entitled to a life estate in such homestead (§§ 731.05, 731.27, Fla.Stat., F.S.A.), and the county judge would not have jurisdiction to rule otherwise. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Race v. Moseley
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.