Roan v. McCaleb’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably Roan v. Smith (1961), 362 So. 2d 836 - Ott v. Fox (1978)
4 federal appellate · 58 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 Cobb v. Malone · Sparks v. McCreary · Suits v. Glover · Meyerson v. New Idea Hosiery Co. · Finnell v. Pitts
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘If the conversion was committed in known violation of the law and of plaintiff’s rights with circumstances of insult, or contumely, or malice, punitive damages were recoverable in the discretion of the jury. (Emphasis Supplied).’” ( 47 Ala.App. at 359, 360 , 254 So.2d at 431 )”
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.