Rolseth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1932
11 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 Clark v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. · Russell v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Perhaps a fair test of the sufficiency of the pleading in that regard is whether, under its allegations, evidence might be introduced sufficient to establish a cause of action.””
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.