Roberts v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2003
4 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 In re Receivership of Augusta Sugar Co. · Swoop v. St. Martin
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ownership of a thing, whether it be movable or immovable, carries with it the right to all that the thing produces, and to all that becomes united to it, either naturally or artificially.” “This is called the right of accession."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hen two corporeal movables are united to form a whole, and one of them is an accessory of the other, the whole belongs to the owner of the principal thing.”
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.