Roberts v. . Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1980
1 federal appellate · 12 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All the rest of my property I give to my wife as above stated, during her widowhood; if she should marry, she would be entitled to a dower on the estate in form according to the laws of North Carolina.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hampton v. . West“I give to my beloved wife, Martha Roberts, all my estate, real and personal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hampton v. . West
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.