Roberts v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
61 U.S. 467 · 1857
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017 · most notably Agostini v. Felton Chancellor Board of Education of the City of New York (1997), White v. Murtha (1967)
67 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Fletcher v. Peck · John Pollard et al. v. John Hagan et al. · The American Insurance Company v. 356 Bales of Cotton David Canter · Ex Parte Charles Sibbald v. The United States
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there would be no end to a suit if every obstinate litigant could, by repeated appeals, compel a court to listen to criticisms on their opinions, or speculate of chances from changes in its members”
18 later decisions 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.