Rittenband v. Cory’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Stevenson v. Superior Court (1997), 40 Cal. 3d 24 - Koire v. Metro Car Wash (1985)
51 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 45
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Reynolds v. Sims · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Craig v. Boren
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a real and appreciable impact on the exercise of the franchise”
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.