Roberts v. Brae’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 1984 · most notably Nichols v. Mitchell (1948), 23 Cal. 2d 849 - Hannah v. Pogue (1944)
48 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 Clapp v. Churchill · Muchenberger v. City of Santa Monica · Staniford v. Trombly · Vowinckel v. N. Clark & Sons · Moniz v. Peterman
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [I]n order to establish an agreed boundary line it is necessary to show that there was an uncertainty or belief of uncertainty in the location of the line, that there was an agreement, express or implied, fixing the line, and that there was an actual designation of the line upon the ground and occupation in accordance therewith. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. York v. Horn
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.