Root v. Allstate Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Hicks v. Albertson (1973), Rowe v. Rowe (1982)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 112 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 Vetco Concrete Company v. TROY LUMBER COMPANY · Jones v. Palace Realty Co. · North Carolina Self Help Corp. v. Brinkley · Fox v. Southern Appliances, Inc. · Cox v. Shaw
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the language of a contract is clear and unambiguous, the court must interpret the contract as written....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[t]he legal effect of a final instrument which defines and declares the intentions and rights of the parties cannot be modified or corrected by proof of any preliminary negotiations or agreement, nor is it permissible to show how the parties understood the transaction in order to explain or qualify what is in the final writing, in the absence of an allegation of fraud or mistake or unless the terms of the instrument itself are ambiguous and require explanation. "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]here the language is patently ambiguous, parol evidence is not admissible to aid the description. [However], where a latent ambiguity occurs . . . parol evidence is admissible to fit the description to the property sought to be conveyed.”
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.