Howard v. Ridgeway’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 1974 · most notably Williams v. Wicker (1938), Owens v. Washington (1953)
40 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 Ex Parte Rosenblum · Lewis v. Martin · Hale v. Cox · Carmack v. State · Cox v. Brown
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In such cases the trial of the issues by jury partake of the essence of a trial at law”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owens v. Washington
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.