Roberts v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 159 Pa. Super. 501 - Buradus v. General Cement Products Co. (1946), Snell v. Ruppert (1975)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Willis v. Willis · Lefkoff v. Sicro · Hutchins v. Kimmell · Fenton v. Reed · Offield v. Davis
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The common law was developed from its beginning largely through public policy, as it was conceived by the courts to be and then by them declared. Holmes, Common Law, passim; see, e.g., pp. 78, 106, 154-156, 161, 181, 198, 202-205. He states on p. 35 that `every important principle which is developed in litigation is at fact and at bottom the result of more or less definitely understood views of public policy.' Time and again courts have declared a rule of law as based on public policy, established, in their opinion, either by legislation, by custom or usage, or by general public opinion."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * ‘Where a general rule is established by statute with exceptions, the court will not curtail the former, nor add to the latter by implication; and it is a general rule that an express exception excludes all others.’ * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[al result which is . reasonable is sought.'”
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.