Robertson v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1984
13 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 Hargadine v. Van Horn · Burnett v. McCluey · Eliot v. Kansas City, Ft. Scott & Memphis Railroad
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule, supported by the weight of the authorities, is thus stated in 2 Corpus Juris, p. 357: “ ‘It is generally held that, in the absence of any statute or rule of court requiring a signature, if it clearly appears who made the affidavit, and the fact of his swearing is certified by a proper officer, the affidavit is sufficient, although not subscribed by the affiant.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““But these cases do not contravene the rule that an unsigned affidavit is no affidavit at all, nor the further rule that the absence of an affidavit defeats jurisdiction.””
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.