Riddle v. Riddle’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2013
3 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 Barnett v. Barnett · Gearllach v. Odom · Eskew v. Eskew · Wallace v. Wallace · Curlew v. Jones
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“purpose of the 1952 annulment statute was to protect children of marriages previously considered void”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burnett v. Schweiker
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.