Roster v. Inter-State Power Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2006
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Stolle v. Anheuser-Busch Inc. · Smith's Administratrix v. Middlesboro Electric Co. · Alabama City G. & A. Ry. Co. v. Appleton · Panama Co v. Rock · Denver Consolidated Electric Co. v. Lawrence
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Independent of statutory authority there is no cause of action arising from the death of a human being.”
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.