Roche v. . Nason’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 1974 · most notably Shornick v. Shornick (1923), In re the Probate of a Paper Propounded, as the Last Will & Testament of Schofield (1911)
24 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedRoche v. Nason
Relationships
Relies on Riggs v. . Palmer · 14 E.H. Smith 584 - Dobie v. . Armstrong · Shipman v. . Protected Home Circle · Crossman v. . Crossman · Weed v. . Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“human experience has often shown that sane men have taken their own lives.”
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.