Rigney v. Lovejoy’s Empirical Analysis
1842
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
6
states following
April 1961
most recently cited
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1961 · most notably 55 Cal. 2d 588 - Bernkrant v. Fowler (1961), Lyford v. Laconia (1909)
23 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.
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.