Riley & Co. v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1958
8 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 Dent v. State of West Virginia · Ex parte Garland · Ex parte Robinson · Ison v. Mayor of Griffin · Mott v. Georgia State Board of Examiners in Optometry
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The insurance business is per se useful and lawful. The legislature can not destroy such a business at will, nor can it arbitrarily take away the right to carry on such business. Where the business is inherently harmful, and permissible only under license of the State, for instance, the licensee accepts his license subject to the right of the State to outlaw the business and to revoke his license. The -cases cited and relied upon by counsel for the defendant are therefore not in point. ’ ’”
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.