Roth v. Law’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2002
2 federal appellate · 18 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 McIver v. Gloria · Lowery v. Berry · Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Cross · Southern Pacific Transportation Co. v. Peralez · Slaughter v. Abilene State School
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as to reduced earning capacity because damages for loss of future earning capacity is always uncertain,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schultz v. Wells“and they must be proved with the degree of certainty of which they are susceptible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schultz v. Wells“No recovery can be allowed based upon pure speculation.”
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.