Roberts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently October 1968 · most notably Storey v. State (1882), Smith v. State (1916)
2 federal appellate · 65 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Stokes v. . People of the State of N.Y. · Mitchell v. State · Keener v. State · Eiland v. State · People v. Scoggins
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the character of a man is notoriously turbulent and bloodthirsty, and his threats are brutal, ferocious, and recently made, his armed entry upon the premises of his assailant might readily be inferred by a jury as being of so" hostile a character as to place such assailant in imminent danger.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.