Roach v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1987
13 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 Johnson v. . Oppenheim
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not to be supposed that the statute intended the lessee should be absolved from his obligation to pay rent, and yet his leasehold interest in the premises continue; that he should enjoy whatever benefit the lease might be to him, and at the same time avoid its burdens.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Romer v. Topel
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.