Alioto v. Marnell’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Tatro v. Manor Care, Inc. (1994), Wheatley v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1994)
2 district · 70 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Coveney v. President & Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross · Smith v. Jordan · McGuiggan v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Leone v. Doran · Caldwell v. Zaher
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fortuity of [the son's] living in [his parents'] home does not create a duty where none otherwise exists; nor does their status as parents, without more, impose on [them] the duty to supervise and control their emancipated adult son.”
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.