Romero v. Earl’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Hartbarger v. Frank Paxton Co. (1993), Roberts v. Total Health Care, Inc. (1998)
4 district · 44 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 Bank of California v. Connolly · Brager v. Blum · Knoebel v. Chief Pontiac, Inc. · Martinez v. Martinez · S & W Trucks, Inc. v. Nelson Auction Service, Inc.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Compensation benefits shall be exempt from claims of creditors and from any attachment, garnishment or execution and shall be paid only to such worker or his personal representative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]f the requirement of bargained for consideration is met, there is no further requirement of a benefit to the promisor or a detriment to the promisee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Something is bargained for 'if it is sought by the promisor in exchange for his promise and is given by the promisee in exchange for that promise.'”
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.