Rivers v. Key’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 1963 · most notably Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Suttles (1946), Darling Stores Corp. v. Beatus (1943)
26 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 Smith v. Bugg · Howell v. Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills · Newton v. Roberts · Glover v. Savannah, Florida & Western Railway Co. · Rabhan v. Rabhan
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiffs having requested leave to file an amendment, they are allowed to tender such amendment within 15 days from this date. Unless such amendment is tendered within said time, or unless the amendment when and if tendered is sufficient to set forth a cause of action, then the petition shall stand dismissed as to each of the defendants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rivers v. Key
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.