People v. Roby’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2015 · most notably Morissette v. United States (1952), Chicago Burlington Quincy Railway Company v. United States (1911)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 68 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 McCutcheon v. People · Commonwealth v. Emmons · Barnes v. State · State v. Hartfiel · Commonwealth v. Raymond
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Many statutes which are in the nature of police regulations, as this is, impose criminal penalties irrespective of any intent to violate them; the purpose being to require a degree of diligence for the protection of the public which shall render violation impossible.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““It was held in Faulks v. People, 39 Mich. 200 ( 33 Am. Rep. 374 ), under a former statute, that one should not be convicted of the offense of selling liquors to a minor who had reason to believe, and did believe, he was of age; but I doubt if we ought so to hold under the statute of 1881, the purpose of which very plainly is, as I think, to compel every person who engages in the sale of intoxicating drinks to keep within the statute at his peril.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Curtis““This respondent did not keep his bar closed and he has therefore disobeyed the law. And he has not only disobeyed the law, but the evil which the law intends to guard against has resulted; that is to say, there has been, either with or without his assent, — it is immaterial which, — a sale of intoxicating liquors to a person who took advantage of the bar being open to enter it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cox
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.