Roark v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
262 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 269 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Horizon/CMS Healthcare Corporation v. Auld (2000), Boyles v. Kerr (1993)
262 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 Stone v. Lawyers Title Ins. Corp. · McKelvy v. Barber · Wilson v. Scott · Hood v. Phillips · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Bliss
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 269 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a petition is sufficient if it gives fair and adequate notice of the facts upon which the pleader bases his claim.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]very fact will be supplied that can be reasonably inferred from what is specifically stated.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]hysicians and surgeons have a duty to make a reasonable disclosure to a patient of risks that are incident to medical diagnosis and treatment. This duty is based upon the patient’s right to information adequate for him to exercise an informed consent to or refusal of the procedure. Id. at 301.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Armstrong
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.