Bryan Roach v. William Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
63 U.S. 129 · 1859
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 23 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1978 · most notably North Pacific Steamship Co. v. Hall Bros. Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Co. (1919), The J. E. Rumbell (1893)
8 federal appellate · 23 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A contract for building a ship, or supplying engines, timber, or other materials for her construction, is clearly not a maritime contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Dredge A.
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.