Roche v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably Miller v. McKenna (1944), Office of the Governor v. Washington Post Co. (2000)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true, as stated in Cooley on Constitutional Limitations, that ‘a retrospective statute, curing defects in legal proceedings, where they are in their nature irregularities only, and do not extend to matters of jurisdiction, is not void on constitutional grounds, unless expressly forbidden.’ Marg. p. 371. But it is also true, as stated in the same work, that ‘in judicial proceedings, if there was originally a failure of jurisdiction, no subsequent law can confer it.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frink v. Clark
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.