Roller v. Basic Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Starnes v. Cayouette (1992), Hatfill v. New York Times Co. (2005)
7 federal appellate · 74 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 Locke v. Johns-Manville Corp. · First Virginia Bank-Colonial v. Baker · Shiflet v. Eller · School Board v. United States Gypsum Co. · Whalen v. Dean Steel Erection Co., Inc.
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a set of operative facts which, under the substantive law, may give rise to a right of action.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In any case arising within the traditional tort system, a cause of action arose when alleged wrongful or negligent acts were done, even though rights of actions may not have vested in individual plaintiffs until a later time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reflect a legislative decision to extinguish all causes of action after passage of an arbitrary period of time.”
2 later decisions 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.