Roby v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1959
1 federal appellate · 6 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 Ward v. Maryland · Thompson v. Edwards · Bryant v. Richardson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A citizen of the United States cannot be denied the right to take and hold absolutely real and personal property in any state of the Union, nor can he be denied the right to accept the conveyance of such property in trust for his sole benefit, or for the benefit of himself and others. This right is incident to national citizenship.' Section 2, art. 4, of the constitution of the United States, declares that 'the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.”
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.