Rocca v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Universal Adjustment Corp. v. Midland Bank, Ltd., of London (1933), Strickland Ex Rel. Steed v. Hughes (1968)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Geofroy v. Riggs · Horn v. Volcano Water Co. · Acme Road MacHinery Co. v. Town of Bridgewater · McEvoy v. Wyman · Succession of Cucullu
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our law declares that in the absence of next of kin entitled to inherit, the public administrator shall take charge of and administer the estate for the benefit of the creditors and heirs. The right claimed under the treaty is that, in such a case, the consul of the country of which the deceased was a citizen shall take charge and administer; a right directly in conflict with our law.””
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.