Roberts v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 578 · 1867
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2008 · most notably Pine River Logging Improvement Company v. United States (1902), Treadwell v. Whittier (1889)
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Mosher v. Lawrence & Westcott
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Special, as contradistinguished from general, damage is that which is the natural, but not the necessary, consequence of the act complained of.” Roberts v. Graham, 6 Wall. 578 , 18 L. Ed. 791 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘‘The objection of variance not taken at the trial cannot avail the defendant as an error in the higher court, if it could have been obviated in the court below.””
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.