Roberts v. . Ely’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably Loomis v. Lehigh Valley Railroad (1916), Chapman v. . Forbes (1890)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 111 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 Lawrence v. . Fox · Mason v. Waite · Matter of Accounting of Neilley
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is immaterial, also, whether the original possession of the money by the defendant was rightful or wrongful. It is sufficient that the duty exists on his part, created by the circumstances, to account for and pay it over to the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]henever one person has in his possession money which he cannot conscientiously retain from another,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“action for money had and received to the use of another”
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.