In re Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1991
14 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 People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · Gardner v. The Collector · Montclair National Bank & Trust Co. v. Howell · Green v. Weller · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Mead
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.
““The requirement of section 26 (article V) that the fact of the signing of a bill by the presiding officer in the presence of the house over which he presides ‘shall be entered on the journal’ is directory, and, in the silence of the journal, it will be presumed that the bill was so signed. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. Clark“[t]here is an express prohibition of the enactment of a law in any other mode than the one pointed out, and hence a compliance therewith is a condition precedent to the validity of a legislative act coming within the provisions of the section.”
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.