Roberts v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably 54 Cal. 2d 787 - Bohman v. Berg (1960), Mears v. Mears (1960)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 45 Cal. 2d 474 - California Lettuce Growers, Inc. v. Union Sugar Co. · 43 Cal. 2d 280 - Ablett v. Clauson · 116 Cal. App. 2d 615 - Vangel v. Vangel · Bekins Van Lines, Inc. v. Johnson · Buckmaster v. Bertram
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“payable as mutually agreed by both parties”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not favor, but leans against, the destruction of contracts because of uncertainty; and it will, if feasible, so construe agreements as to carry into effect the reasonable intentions of the par ties if that can be ascertained.”
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.