Roberts v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2007
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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Shepley v. Cowan · Landes v. Brant · Balch v. Arnold · Touchard v. Crow
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Having made his filing, paid the initial payment, made proofs of the required expenditures for the three years and having submitted his final proof before he gave the mortgage he had then done all that he was then required to do or could do to entitle him to a patent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . The mortgage therefore was a valid lien upon the equitable interest or title then held by Roberts. The legal title thereafter conveyed to him by the patent was based upon that equitable one, and without which no patent could rightfully issue. . . . ” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walliker v. Escott
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.