14 E.H. Smith 217 - Roberts v. . the State’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably Matter of Lyons v. Goldstein (1943), Eagle, Star & British Dominions Insurance v. Heller (1927)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedRoberts v. State
Relationships
Relies on Board of Supervisors v. State
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“, “It was, therefore, incumbent upon him [the claimant] to establish that he d Was-'-improperly convicted ánd -i-Siprisoned, -and the amount of damages he had '-áúStai-ned-by reason thereof.- While a great volume of evidence was given upon the second question- [the 'amount of damages], we find nothing- in the record -which justified the hoard in finding that his conviction and. imprison.-./ ment were improper, hut, instead, the evidence upon which he was convicted and the judgment of conviction were introduced, both of which show that his-; conviction was proper, — -the former presumptively, and the latter cpnclu-. sively.” ■ [”
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.