Sprott v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2017
15 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 Conley v. Gibson · Glus v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal · Spomer v. City of Grand Junction · Gayton v. Department of Highways · Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. City of Richmond
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 5(e) requires filings to be with the clerk of the court but permits filing with the judge provided 'he shall (then) note thereon the filing date and forthwith transmit them (i.e. the papers) to the office of the clerk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'NEAL VS. HUDSON““* * * [A] complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davidson v. Dill
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.