Roeder v. Stein’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
3
states following
August 1917
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barrows v. Fox · Gould v. Stafford
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Conveying it [water] through a ditch even will cause some loss, and, if the distance is great, or the soil loose or porous, the loss will be considerable. This, within any reasonable expense, is generally unavoidable. ’ ’”
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.