Rockwell v. Allman’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Swann v. Marks (1996), Parker v. Warren (2007)
66 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 Jacobson v. Southern Biscuit Co.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A misnomer is a mistake in name, but not person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Briggs v. Moring · Richmond v. Volk“Here the wrong person was named and it cannot be corrected ... by labelling it a misnomer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Briggs v. Moring“the right party [is] before the court ‘although under a wrong name’.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.