Roberts v. Finger’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2010
18 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 Yazoo M.V.R. Co. v. Sideboard · May Bros. v. Doggett · Clayton v. Clark · Wunderlich v. State Highway Commission · Williams v. Mid-South Paving Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must have all the essentials of a contract and may be express, or implied from the circumstances.”
4 later decisions 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.