Roberson v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
393 F.2d 123 · 1968
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1984
7 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Rock Island Millwork Co. v. Hedges-Gough Lumber Co. · Roberson v. Hamilton
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) The threshold inquiry in every federal case is whether the district court has jurisdiction; (2) lack of jurisdiction cannot be waived, by the parties or ignored by the court; (3) if jurisdiction is wanting, the district court should decline to proceed in the case; * * '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cornelius v. Moxon
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.