Herbert J. Roberts v. Norman M. Ross, Jr’s Empirical Analysis
344 F.2d 747 · 1965
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 7 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Robert FLOWERS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CROUCH-WALKER CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee (1977), 107 Wash. 2d 196 - In Re the Detention of LaBelle (1986)
35 federal appellate · 7 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Louis Dreyfus & Cie. v. Panama Canal Co. · Verona v. Schenley Farms Co. · 163 Pa. Super. 635 - Alford v. Raschiatore · Kinnear-Weed Corp. v. Humble Oil & Refining 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“argumentative overdetailed partisan matter.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n most cases it will appear that many of the findings proposed by one or the other of the parties are fully supported by the evidence, are directed to material matters and may be adopted verbatim and it may even be that in some cases the findings and conclusions proposed by a party will be so carefully and objectively prepared that they may all properly be adopted by the trial judge without change.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This court has had occasion to point out that Rule 52(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires the trier of facts to find the facts specially and state his conclusions of law thereon with clarity. The findings of fact and conclusions of law must be sufficient to indicate the basis of the trial judge’s decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.