45 Cal. App. 302 - Roper v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1963
10 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 Biddel v. Brizzolara · State Loan & Trust Co. v. Cochran · Wood v. . Seely · Smith v. Lawrence · Krathwohl v. Dawson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is a general rule that an estoppel operates, not only on the parties to the transaction but also on their privies in blood, estate, and contract’.””
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.