State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2015
24 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 Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Fallbrook Irrigation District v. Bradley · Mammoth Oil Co. v. United States · Fallbrook Irrigation Dist v. Bradley · Platter v. Board of Commissioners
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nor does any statutory officer have authority to waive the rights of the state, nor can the state be estopped by such action, nor may laches be applied against the state in acting in its governmental capacity. When the right to do a thing depends upon legislative authority, and the legislature has failed to authorize it, or has forbidden it, no amount of acquiescence, or consent, or approval of the doing of it by a ministerial officer, can create a right to do the thing which is unau thorized or forbidden.” State v. Roberts et al. (1948), 226 Ind. 106 , 78 N. E. 2d 440 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barger
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.