State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1950
1 federal appellate · 14 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 People v. Sanchez
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The intention of the legislature in prescribing the time for the commencement and the place for holding the terms of the district court was to attain certainty. The principle of a fixed notice by the legislature rests upon public convenience; otherwise suitors, grand and trial jurors, and others interested in the proceedings of the court would be kept in attendance upon an uncertainty of time and place. ‘Certain fixed times and places’ were said by Spelman to be essential to the existence of a court; and these essentials have been recognized by lexicographers, text-writers, and judges ever since his time. It is indispensable to the validity of a judgment that it be rendered at the time and place prescribed by law. The proceedings in this case were, therefore, coram non judice and void.””
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.