Roby v. Colehour’s Empirical Analysis
146 U.S. 153 · 1892
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1991 · most notably Lisenba v. People of State of California (1941), Chicago Co v. City of Chicago (1897)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Gross v. United States Mortgage Co. · Brown v. Atwell · Felix v. Scharnweber · Parmelee v. Lawrence
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our jurisdiction being invoked upon the ground that a right or immunity, specially set up and claimed under the Constitution or authority of the United States, has been denied by the judgment sought to be reviewed, it riiust appear from .the record of the case either that the right, so set up and claimed, was expressly denied, or that such was the necessary .effect in law of thq judgment.”
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.