Rice v. Dowling’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
August 2004
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Floyd v. Fruit Industries, Inc. · Birgel v. Heintz · Shelnitz v. Greenberg · State Dept. of Corrections v. Morro · State v. Tavone
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gives discretionary authority to courts of equitable jurisdiction to order, upon the complaint of any interested party, the physical partition of any real estate held by tenants in common, and to appoint a committee to partition such property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.