Roberts v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 607 · 1976
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably International Union United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America Uaw v. Yard-Man Incorporated (1983), Linda Sue Edwards v. Travelers Insurance of Hartford, Connecticut, P. v. Jackson, III v. Travelers Insurance of Hartford, Connecticut, P. v. Jackson, III v. Travelers Insurance of Hartford, Connecticut (1977)
21 federal appellate · 4 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bishop v. Wood · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Walker v. City of Birmingham
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The gravamen or gist of the action where it is for criminal conversation is the adulterous intercourse, and the alienation of affections thereby resulting is regarded as merely a matter of aggravation, whereas the gravamen in the other case is the alienation of affections with malice or improper motives.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lentz v. Baker“the cause of action accrues and the statute of limitations commences to run when the injury occurs or is discovered, or when in the exercise of reasonable care and diligence, it should have been discovered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harvey v. Martin
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.