Roberts v. Abney’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1959
6 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 Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. James · Spann v. Cochran & Ewing · Evans v. San Antonio Traction Co. · 18 Tex. Civ. App. 281 - Temple Grocery Co. v. Sullivan · Allen v. Traylor
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If A. is indebted to B. and for a valuable consideration C. assumes such indebtedness, B. may sue A. and C. jointly, or either of them separately, for such debt; the American rule being that one has a cause of action upon a promise made for his benefit, though he be a stranger, both to the promise and the consideration. [Citing a number of cases.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nelson v. Seidel
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.