Meyer v. Roettele’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 1996 · most notably Matter of Mitchell (1944), Piper v. Neighborhood Youth Corps. (1976)
26 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 Lewis v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp. · Victory Sparkler & Specialty Co. v. Francks · Matter of Keator v. . Rock Plaster Manufacturing Company · Van Vechten v. American Eagle Fire Insurance · Matter of Connelly v. Hunt Furniture 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as denoting an unlooked-for and untoward event which is not expected or designed.”
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.