Robertson v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
129 U.S. 233 · 1889
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2012 · most notably United States v. Debrow (1953), Campbell v. City of Haverhill (1895)
34 federal appellate · 12 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 Accident Insurance v. Crandal · Lorillard v. . Clyde · People ex rel. Haws v. Walker · Tuttle v. . the People
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question of the sufficiency of the evidence for the plaintiff to support his action cannot he' considered by this court It has repeatedly been de cided Hint a request for a ruling that, upon tlie evidence introduced, the plaintiff is not entitled to recover, cannot be made by the defendant, as a matter of right, unless at the close of the -whole evidence; and that if the defendant, at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, and without resting his own case, requests and is refused such a ruling, the refusal cannot be assigned for error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“word ‘duly’ means, in a proper way, or regularly, dr according to law.”
1 later decision 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.