Robertson v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1995
3 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The parties having no individual property rights to be asserted, the question is, can a court of chancery, under the facts of the case, restore them to their position as members of the society? We can see no ground on which such relief can be granted.””
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.