Rambo v. Rambo’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Dubay v. Irish (1988), Nocktonick Ex Rel. Matson v. Nocktonick (1980)
64 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Dunlap v. Dunlap · Matarese v. Matarese · Wick v. Wick · Norfolk Southern Railroad v. Gretakis · Pekin Stave & Manufacturing Co. v. Ramey
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But it is deemed better public policy that occasional injuries of this kind go unrequited rather than encourage or tolerate proceedings so repugnant to natural sentiments concerning family relations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An unemancipated minor child has no right of action against a person or a person standing in loco parentis, for the tort of such parent or person,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We, therefore, hold that an unemancipated minor may not maintain an action for an involuntary tort against his parent in this state.”
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.