Wilson v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 1976 · most notably Lucero Ex Rel. Lucero v. Torres (1960), Dallas Ry. & Terminal Co. v. Darden (1931)
1 federal appellate · 36 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 Mayer v. Mellette · Arrington v. Horner
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By common acceptation, ‘unavoidable accident means a casualty which happens when all the means which common prudence suggests have been used to prevent it. Hodgson v. Dexter (U. S.) 12 Fed. Cas. 283 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The quantum of care required is to be estimated by the exigencies of the particular situation, and is usually a question of fact for the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haskell v. Kennedy
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.