Royer v. Royer’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 1995
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Industrial National Bank v. Peloso · Casey v. Casey · Alix v. Alix · MBT Construction Corp. v. Kelhen Corp. · Rochefort v. Rochefort
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] written contract may be modified by subsequent oral agreement of the parties,”
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.