Rieger v. Schulte & Eicher’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1978
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 sole question for determination . is, Was the material furnished by these claimants of the quality called for in the contract . . . ? If so, they were entitled to a judgment for the respective amounts claimed by them, without regard to the character of work done by the contractor himself or other subcontractors or materialmen.”
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.