Rodriguez v. Horton’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Fishman v. Brooks (1986), Woodworker's Supply, Inc. v. Principal Mutual Life Insurance (1999)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 32 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 Loucks v. Albuquerque National Bank · Duke City Lumber Company, Inc. v. Terrel · Bank of New Mexico v. Rice · Sauter v. St. Michael's College · George v. Caton
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A lawyer holding himself out to the public as specializing in an area of the law must exercise the same skill as other specialists of ordinary ability specializing in the same field.”
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.