Roberts v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1958
17 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 Knapp v. Knapp · McFarland v. Baze's Administrator · Garbut v. Bowling · Saunders v. Saunders
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the husband sent for his wife and brought her to his home, and afterwards lived with her in the house purchased by the money he had paid her, he received her to his arms as his wife, and by those acts he repudiated the deed of separation and all its incidents, and he thereby clothed his wife with all the rights pertaining to the relation of marriage as if no deed of separation had ever been.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haile v. Hale
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.