Foster v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1941
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 Barbour v. Tompkins · Harrod v. Armstrong · Hopson v. Cunningham · Ratliff v. Soward's Guardian · Crouch v. Wainscott
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““my undivided interest and share to a certain tract or parcel of land of which my said father, Stephen Owens, aforesaid, died seized and possessed, lying on the waters of the Little South fork of Cumberland river in Wayne county, containing about 365 acres in all.””
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.