Ross v. Giacomo’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Circus Circus Hotels, Inc. v. Witherspoon (1983), Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co. v. Mercer (1995)
2 district · 37 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 Brown v. Cobb · John E. Smith's Sons Co. v. Lattimer Foundry & Machine Co. · Forman v. Eagle Thrifty Drugs and Markets, Inc. · 102 Cal. App. 2d 680 - McDonald v. Hewlett · Theodore Kornicki v. Calmar Steamship Corporation v. Jarka Corporation of Philadelphia, Third-Party
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a civil case in which an appeal is permitted by law from a district court to the Supreme Court the notice of appeal required by Rule 3 shall be filed with the clerk of the district court within thirty (30) days of the date of service of written notice of the entry of the judgment or order appealed from.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. Scully“alleged donor [who] is lacking in such mental vigor as to enable him to protect himself against imposition even though his mental weakness is not such as to justify his being regarded as totally incapacitated?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Whether to require a special verdict is a discretionary determination to be made by the trial court.”
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.