John Roller v. Stephen Holly’s Empirical Analysis
176 U.S. 398 · 1900
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 40 district · 233 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 472 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. (1950), Hanson v. Denckla (1958)
49 federal appellate · 40 district · 233 state decisions — followed in 41 states
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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Davidson v. New Orleans · Hagar v. · Cooper v. Reynolds
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 472 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That a man is entitled to some notice before he can be deprived of his liberty or property is an axiom of the law to which no citation of authority would give additional weight. * * * It is manifest that the requirement of notice wouia be of no value whatever- unless such notice were reasonable and adequate for the purpose.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘ ‘ The cases in which it has been held that a seizure or its equivalent, an attachment or execution upon the property, is necessary to give jurisdiction are those where a general creditor seeks to establish and foreclose a lien thereby acquired. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he right of a citizen to due process of law must rest upon a basis more substantial than favor or discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.