Roessler v. Burwell’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Weiss v. Wiederlight (1988), Bridgeport Pipe Engineering Co. v. DeMatteo Construction Co. (1970)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 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 Clark Paper & Manufacturing Co. v. Stenacher · Samuel Stores, Inc. v. Abrams · McCall Co. v. . Wright · Palumbo v. George A. Fuller Co. · Granger v. Craven
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The underlying purpose of the defendant in entering into the agreement was to continue thereafter in the employment of the plaintiff at a mutually agreeable salary; the benefit offered him was such a continuance, in return for which the plaintiff was to receive his services and the benefit of the restrictive covenant in the agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Though there be not mutual promises, yet if, before he calls for the fulfillment of the promise, the promisee do perform that, in consideration of his doing which the promise is made, there is a consideration for the agreement, and it can be enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the towns of New Haven, West Haven, and other cities and towns in this State.”
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.