Rocha v. Ahmad’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably 669 So. 2d 56 - Aetna Cas. and Sur. Co. v. Berry (1996), Greenstein, Logan & Co. v. Burgess Marketing, Inc. (1987)
4 federal appellate · 19 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 285th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on In Re King's Estate · Garza v. Alviar · Gulf Paving Co. v. Lofstedt · Woods v. Littleton · New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Texas Industries, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While Rocha recovered far less than he set out to, we cannot say that his diminished recovery in any way precluded a recovery of fees ... for the prosecution of his claim.”
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.