Rigler v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1983
6 federal appellate · 3 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 Taylor v. Short · Estes v. Reynolds · Hart v. Handlin · Long v. International Vending Machine Co. · 114 Mo. App. 387 - Harms v. Wolf
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Obviously this is but an attempt to vary by parol the terms of a written contract plain and explicit on its face. The evidence concerning this matter is to be rejected entirely as of no avail here.” -”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bellows v. Porter
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.