Roller v. Roller’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably 3 Cal. 3d 914 - Gibson v. Gibson (1971), 45 Cal. 2d 421 - Emery v. Emery (1955)
4 federal appellate · 130 state decisions — followed in 34 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 Hewlett v. George · Abbott v. Abbott · Bandfield v. Bandfield
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This text goes beyond the circumstances of the case at bar, where the action was brought during the minority of the plaintiff. (583) As will be seen by the extract above quoted, it is even forbidden after the child becomes of age, if the injury sued upon is referable to the period of minority. So well is this principle of the law understood that there have been very few attempts to inaugurate actions of this kind. The only one to which we are referred by brief of counsel, or which we have been able by independent investigation to discover, which seems to be in point, is Hewlett v. George , 68 Miss. 703 ; 9 So. 885 ; 13 L.R.A. 682 , where it was held that a parent is not civilly liable to a child for personal injuries, inflicted during minority, and where the relation of parent and child with its mutual obligations exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The public has an interest in the financial welfare of other minor members of the family, and it would not be the policy of the law to allow the estate, which is to be looked to for the support of all the minor children, to be appropriated by any particular one.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lasecki v. Kabara
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.