Ross v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Southwest Forest Industries, Inc. v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. (1970), Zuckerman v. Transamerica Insurance (1982)
12 federal appellate · 49 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 Scudder v. Union National Bank · Leimer v. State Mut. Life Assur. Co. · Erk v. Glenn L. Martin Co. · Work v. United Globe Mines · Forbach v. Steinfeld
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are declarations of public policy as well as a private right....”
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.