Rollins v. Rayhill’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2011
3 federal appellate · 12 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 City of New Orleans v. Texas P Ry Co · Northwestern Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. Ward · E. D. Bedwell Coal Co. v. State Industrial Com. · McKeel v. Mercer · Tulsa County Truck & Fruit Growers Ass'n v. McMurphey
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A condition precedent of a contract is one which calls for the performance of some act or the happening of some event after the contract is entered into and upon the performance or happening of which its obligations are made to depend.”
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.