Roll v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1924
11 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 Page v. Atlantic & Pacific Railroad · Holloman v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. · Nay v. Han. & St. Jo. R. R. · Town of Brownsville v. Rembert · Riddle v. Gillespie
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the appellant shall fail to give such notice at least ten days before the second term of the appellate court, after the appeal is taken, the judgment shall be affirmed or the appeal dismissed at the option of the appellee. ’ ’”
2 later decisions 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.