Holmberg v. Bergin’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Abbinett v. Fox (1985), Rust v. Guinn (1981)
35 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Gostina v. Ryland · 54 Cal. App. 737 - Stevens v. Moon · Parker v. Larsen · Sawicki v. Connecticut Railway & Lighting Co. · 56 Cal. App. 563 - Shevlin v. Johnston
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“due to [plaintiffs'] failure to take advantage of earlier opportunities to remove roots [through self-help].”
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.