Roberts v. Friedell’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Del Hayes & Sons, Inc. v. Mitchell (1975), Henschke v. Christian (1949)
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 25 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 Dickerson v. Colgrove · Dull v. Blackman · Henderson v. Murray · Exsted v. Exsted · Parks v. Smoot
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[H]e who by his language or conduct leads another to do what he could not otherwise have done, shall not subject such person to loss or injury by disappointing the expectations upon which he acted.”
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.