Rockstad v. Erikson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Alaska Public Interest Research Group v. State (2007), Young v. Embley (2006)
68 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1334
Relies on Hobbs v. McLean · Gonzales v. Parks · in Re Sheldon Baroff · Shiner v. Moriarty · Jamison v. Consolidated Utilities, 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e review a trial court's rulings on questions of law, and the application of law to fact, de novo and adopt the rule of law that is most persuasive in light of precedent, reason, and policy.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“all factual inferences in favor of, and viewing the facts in the light most favorable to the non-prevailing party.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“affirm grants of summary judgment when there are no genuine issues of material fact, and the prevailing party (generally the movant) was entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
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.