State v. Roell’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1970
8 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 Chassaniol v. City of Greenwood · Waugh v. Board of Trustees · State ex rel. Greaves v. Henry · Money v. Wood · Robinson v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . and it would be difficult to conceive that any of the public lands can be acquired . . . by any person by means of an application under oath for more than one-quarter section of state forfeited *Page 590 tax lands in one year . . . without the purchaser being guilty of actual fraud within the meaning of chapter 309, Laws of 1940.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cummings“Lands belonging to, or under the control of the state, shall never be donated directly or indirectly, to private corporations or individuals... .”
1 later decision 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.