Roberts v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 1994 · most notably 63 N.J. Super. 369 - Ocean Cape Hotel Corp. v. Masefield Corp. (1960), King v. Wise (1926)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 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 Chicago, Texas & Mexican Central Railway Co. v. Titterington · Adams v. . Gillig
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule, like other rules of justice must be so applied in the practical administration of justice as shall best subserve, in each particular case, the undoing of wrong, and the vindication of the right.””
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.