Riley v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
November 1965
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Orloff v. Metropolitan Trust Co. · 98 Cal. App. 306 - O'Neil v. Ross · Title Insurance & Trust Co. v. McGraw
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘According to the weight of authority, the parties to a contract entered into for the benefit of a third person may rescind, vary or abrogate the contract as they see fit, without the assent of the third person, at any time before the contract is accepted, adopted, or acted upon by him, and such rescission deprives the third person of any rights under or because of such contract. ’ ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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