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Rice v. Waddill’s Empirical Analysis

1902

Citation profile

68
cited by 68 later decisions
11
states following
June 1985
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 66 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently June 1985 · most notably Linders v. Linders (1947), Baker v. Baker (1952)

2 federal appellate · 66 state decisions — followed in 11 states

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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 In re Estate of Soulard · Borgess Investment Co. v. Vette · Henry v. Sneed · Darrier v. Darrier · Newton v. Newton

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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Can it differ in principle that, in this case, defendants took plaintiff’s deposition, had it duly certified and thereby, in the language of counsel, ‘heard what she said and that was all he wanted to know,’ and then suppress the deposition; whereas, in the cases cited, the deposition was similarly taken and filed, but not used by ithe party taking it? Can a party thus trifle-with the machinery of the law and avail himself of it if it suits his purpose, and reject it if it does not, and yet escape all the consequences of his acts? We hold he cannot.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Cox v. Gettys
  2. “The chancery commands the right to remain where it should have been till all the purposes of justice are accomplished.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hart v. Parrish

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.