Rider v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1937
11 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The motion to quash was in the nature of a demurrer to the sufficiency of the affidavit, and of the order, and was so treated by the court, and was so treated on the argument of the case, and will be so treated in this opinion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The order above stated was in no sense a writ. It was neither signed nor sealed by the clerk, and was never intended to be a writ, but was a greliminary order to enable the defendants to show why a writ should not be issued.””
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.