Riley v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
212 F.2d 692 · 1954
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1983
5 federal appellate ·
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 Continental Mills, Inc. v. United States · United States v. Towery · Bono v. United States · Marsh v. United States · Simmons v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[What] Congress intended by “the contingency on which the claim is founded” was the contingency on which liability under the policy was bottomed, namely, — permanent disability or death while the policy remained in force.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.