Roberts v. Bauer’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2014
22 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 Howard v. Freeman
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.
“"It was long since decided by this Court, that: `The formal written acceptance of the mortgagee was not necessary. The acceptance of the note by the payee was an acceptance of the mortgage which it stipulated, and by the delivery of the note the entire contract became complete between the debtor and the creditor.' * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The defendant cannot complain that he has been misled by the erroneous.description of the lot. * * * The lot was described with sufficient certainty, and in a manner not calculated to mislead or deceive any one.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Metcalfe v. Green““II ne faut pas apporter esprit trop minutieux dans l’exigence de ces conditions. II suffit que les parties aient employé telle ou telle designation qui ne laisse pas de doute sur l’identité de l’immeuble””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Metcalfe v. Green
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.