Vassos v. Roussalis’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably 35 Cal. App. 4th 733 - Villa v. McFerren (1995), 35 Cal. App. 4th 69 - FSR Brokerage, Inc. v. Superior Court (1995)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 72 Wash. 2d 73 - Pederson v. Dumouchel · 151 W. Va. 977 - Hundley v. Martinez · Danculovich v. Brown · Maxted v. Pacific Car & Foundry Company · Govin v. Hunter
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * Some circumstances have acquired particular legal significance which make it possible for the court to fix a more specific standard, * * *"”
8 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.