Royer v. Roth’s Empirical Analysis
132 U.S. 201 · 1889
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1963 · most notably Hill v. Wooster (1890), Lovell Manuf'G Co v. Cary (1893)
22 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 Hendy v. Golden State & Miners' Iron Works · Thatcher Heating Co. v. Burtis · Double-Pointed Tack Co. v. Two Rivers Manufacturing Co. · Clark Pomace-Holder Co v. Ferguson
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In combination with the drum, A, of a rawhide fulling machine operating to twist the leather alternately in one direction and the other, a shifting device for the purpose of making the operation, automatic and continuous,' substantially as described.””
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.