Roe v. Chitwood’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
December 1909
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any person shall falsely use, utter or publish words ■which, in their common acceptation, shall amount to charge any person' with having been guilty of fornication or adultery, such words, so spoken, shall be deemed slander, and shall be actionable and indictable as such.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Williams
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.