Roach v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably Williams v. Edmondson (1975), Twin City Lines, Inc. v. Cummings, Judge (1947)
26 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 Merchants' & Planters' Bank v. Hammock · Missouri Pacific R.R. Co. v. McLendon
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that, if the existence or nonexistence of jurisdiction depends on contested facts which the inferior court is competent to inquire into and determine, a writ of prohibition will not be granted, although the superior court should be of the opinion that the *Page 768 claims of fact had been wrongfully determined by the lower court, and, if rightfully determined, would have ousted the jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lafargue v. Waggoner
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.