Rice v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Welsh v. United States (1988), Huber & Huber Motor Express v. Martin's Adm'r (1936)
7 federal appellate · 23 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 Star Mills v. Bailey · Aye v. Philadelphia Co. · Wender Blue Gem Coal Co. v. Louisville Property Co. · Farmers Canal Co. v. Frank · Fox Petroleum Co. v. Booker
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be effected without a formal order in the proceedings. `Like any other fact, abandonment may be shown by circumstances or by the actions, conduct, or declarations of the parties.'”
1 later decision 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.