Small v. Rockfeld’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably Mimkon v. Ford (1975), Berman v. Allan (1979)
41 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 Rappaport v. Nichols · 3 Cal. 3d 914 - Gibson v. Gibson · Immer v. Risko · Collopy v. Newark Eye and Ear Infirmary · Falco v. PADOS
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.
“"After a review of the arguments for and against the parent-child immunity doctrine, we are of the opinion that it should be abrogated in this State. Reingold v. Reingold, supra [ 115 N.J.L. 532 ] Hastings v. Hastings, supra , and the cases which follow them are overruled. Our decision today goes no further than allowing suits between unemancipated children and their parents for injuries suffered as a result of the negligent operation of a motor vehicle. See dissenting opinion of Justice Jacobs in Hastings v. Hastings, supra . We realize that there may be areas involving the exercise of parental authority and care over a child which should not be justiciable in a court of law, See Goller v. White, supra, Silesky v. Kelman, supra. But we are not confronted with such a situation in this case and we will not speculate on what limits, if any, the rule enunciated here should have . . 56 N.J. at 506-507."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In rejecting these bases he reiterated what he had said in Immer ( 56 N.J. 482 ) and embraced the dissenting views in Hastings ( 33 N.J. at 253-261 ). See also Heyman v. Gordon, supra, 40 N.J. at 55-60 (dissenting opinion); Franco v. Davis, 51 N.J. 237, 242-243 (1968) (dissenting opinion). He concluded his opinion with the following:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) where the alleged negligent act involves an exercise of parental authority over the child; and (2) where the alleged negligent act involves an exercise of ordinary parental discretion with respect to the provision of food, clothing, housing, medical and dental services and other care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buono v. Scalia
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.