Riley v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably State ex rel. Trent v. Sims (1953), Capitol Steel & Iron Co. v. Fuller (1952)
41 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appropriations of money embracing distinct items.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coffee v. Henry
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.