Robertson v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2017
2 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 Ballard v. Carmichael · Dority v. Dority · Bateman & Bro. v. Maddox · Hill v. Hunter · Chandler v. Jost
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contract for the sale of real estate or the lease thereof for a longer term than one year”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoover v. Wukasch
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.