Roach v. Henry C. Beck Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2000
2 district · 10 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 Green v. Kaesler-Allen Lumber Co. · Biby v. City of Wichita · Taggart v. City of Kansas City · Blankenship v. City of Kansas City · Pierce v. Jilka
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . It is well settled in this state that a city is not required to maintain perfect sidewalks. A city is not an insurer of the safety of pedestrians. Its duty is to maintain them in a reasonably safe condition for public use. . . .” (p. 560.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Steward
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.