Roberson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
165 F.2d 752 · 1948
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 1986 · most notably Everhart v. State (1975), Morrison v. United States (1958)
31 federal appellate · 10 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 Carroll v. United States · Agnello v. United States · Harris v. United States · Gouled v. United States · Ford v. United States
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.
“the finding of the trial judge on a preliminary question of fact should not be reversed on appeal if it be fairly supported by the evidence.”
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.