Petrus v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2000
3 federal appellate · 4 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 Eagle, Star & British Dominions Insurance v. Heller · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Rison · Carter v. Hinkle · 108 W. Va. 443 - Collins v. Treat · Virginia Railway & Power Co. v. Leland
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Michael Petrus, owner of the automobile operated by Mrs. Petrus, was not a necessary party to the action brought against Mrs. Petrus. (The Civil and Police Court suit). Not being a party, he could not assert a counterclaim therein, and the merits of any claim he might have had to property damage were not in issue. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where there has been litigation which has in fact determined the point in the controversy, and there has been a final judgment, the judgment is conclusive. Where the subject matter is identical and the evidence is of necessity the same, the question cannot be reopened.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Petrus v. Robbins“Michael Petrus was the owner of the automobile at the time of the accident,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Petrus v. Robbins
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.