Rice v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1940 · most notably Wallace v. Wallace (1929), Nolin v. Pearson (1906)
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions — followed in 15 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 People v. Barker · Hutcheson v. Peck · Holt v. People · De Armond v. Neasmith · Tolbert v. Burke
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When an attempt is made to impeach a witness, there should be no reasonable doubt but that the questions asked the impeaching witness and the witness sought to be impeached' are one and the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Considine““The language which it is claimed the witness used must be given, and he asked if he used it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Considine
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.