Robinson v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
4 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Seider v. Roth (1966), Furst v. Brady (1940)
4 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Case of the State Tax on Foreign-Held Bonds. Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania · Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Virginia · Sanders v. Frankfort Marine, Accident & Plate Glass Insurance · Glover v. Baker · Barrett v. Cady
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the purposes of ownership, the creditor’s domicil is generally regarded determinative of the fictional locality of the debt. But since enforcement may be only where the debtor or his property is found, the debt must be owned by the creditor there as well as owed by the debtor.””
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.