Roberson v. Dale’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2017
4 federal appellate · 1 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1337
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Moor v. County of Alameda · Gibbs v. Buck
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has separated itself from UNC for the specific purpose of avoiding liability for the university's management of revenue bonds. There is no other such disclaimer of liability anywhere else in [N.C. Gen. Stat.] § 116—1 et seq.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'might have the power to satisfy any judgment won ... such judgment would inevitably have to be paid from”
1 later decision 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.