Roberts v. The Egyptian Monarch’s Empirical Analysis
36 F. 773 · 1888
Citation profile
6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1925
6 district ·
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 The Belgenland · The " Scotland" · Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Ross · The "City of Panama" · Chicago St Ry Co v. Ross
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In administering justice between parties it is essential to know by what. law, or code, or system of laws, their mutual rights are' to be determined. When they arise in a particular country or state, they are generally to be determined by the laws of that state. Those laws pervade all transactions which take place where they prevail, and give them their color and legal effect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Bee
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.