Roberts v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Vincent v. Palmer (1941), Dahl v. Brunswick Corp. (1976)
5 federal appellate · 43 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This case presents for the first time in this court the construction of the effect of an offer by employers to extend”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The employee being liable to a forfeiture of all bonus if he quits before the specified time, it would be a breach of faith, and, as one of the authorities above quoted says, `perilously near the perpetration of a fraud,' if the employer were not liable for a breach of such supplementary contract on his part to the extent at least of payment of the bonus earned up to the time of the discharge, upon a quantum meruit basis, when he has discharged the employee for whatever motive if the ground was not legal and sufficient for termination of the offer of extra compensation for continuous service in the employer's service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It has become a very general policy with large employers of labor to offer a bonus or additional compensation to employees who shall render continuous and efficient service for a specified period of time. This is not a gratuity or gift, but is an offer on the part of the employer, with whom the offer originates in order to procure efficient and faithful service and continuous employment, and when the employee enters upon the service upon that inducement it becomes a supplementary contract of which he’cannot be deprived without sufficient cause.””
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.