Robinson v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis
128 U.S. 53 · 1888
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1978 · most notably Employers' Liability Cases (1908), Crozier v. Fried. Krupp Aktiengesellschaft (1912)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 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 Cooper v. Reynolds · Settlemier v. Sullivan · Cheely v. Clayton · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Pennsylvania · Ferris v. Higley
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We lay aside as not open in dispute, the proposition that there is a difference between distribution and partition. And we are satisfied that that difference was in the mind of the Legislature when it passed the original * * * act. as veil as when the Code of Civil Procedure was adopted. As correctly observed by counsel, distribution neither gives a new title to property, nor transfers a distinct right in the estate of the deceased owner, but is simply der claratory as to the persons upon whom the law casts the succession, and the extent of their respective interests; while partition, in most, if not all, of its aspects, is an adversary proceeding, in which a remedial right to the transfer of the property is asserted, and resulting in a decree which either ox proprio vigore, or ns executed, accomplishes such transfer.””
2 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.