Roco v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2002 · most notably 200 Cal. App. 2d 69 - Brady v. Superior Court (1962), Southampton Civic Club v. Couch (1959)
1 federal appellate · 36 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.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We deduce from the authorities the following general rules to determine when the relation of a family, as contemplated by law, exists: (1) it is one of social status, not of mere contract, (2) legal or moral obligation on the head to support the other members; (3) corresponding state of dependence on the part of the other members for this support." (Emphasis supplied.)”
6 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.