Roberts v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Vittands v. Sudduth (2000), Markham v. Fay (1996)
3 federal appellate · 12 district · 12 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 676
Relies on Johnston v. Holiday Inns, Inc. · National Shawmut Bank v. Joy · Morrison v. Lennett · Blanchette v. Blanchette · 26 Mass. App. Ct. 385 - Apahouser Lock & Security Corp. v. Carvelli
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ha[s] no power, as such, to act in respect of the trust property, but may only act at the direction of (in effect, as agents for) the beneficiaries,” In re Grand Jury Subpoena, 973 F.2d 45, 48 (1st Cir.1992). The trustee is”
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.