Roberts v. Reilly’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 80 · 1885
Citation profile
169 federal appellate · 42 district · 391 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 724 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2007 · most notably Cuyler v. Adams (1981), Christopher Strassheim v. Milton Daily (1911)
169 federal appellate · 42 district · 391 state decisions — followed in 44 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.
Relationships
Relies on Robb v. Connolly · Ex Parte in the Matter of the Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Dennison Governor and Executive Authority of the State of Ohio · Reggel · Ex parte Yerger
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 724 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o be regarded as a fugitive from justice it is not necessary that one shall have left the State in which the crime is alleged to have been committed for the very purpose of avoiding prosecution, but simply that, having committed there an act which by the law of the State constitutes a crime, he afterwards has departed from its jurisdiction and when sought to be prosecuted is found within the territory of another State.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“first, that the person demanded is substantially charged with a crime against the laws of the State from whose justice he is alleged to have fled, by an indictment or an affidavit, certified as authentic by the governor of the State making the demand; and, second, that the person demanded is a fugitive from the justice of the State the executive authority of which makes the demand.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.