Riley v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably 40 Ala. App. 106 - Haynes v. State (1958), National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. State (1963)
42 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 United States v. Waddill, Holland & Flinn, Inc. · United States v. Johnson · Penton v. Brown-Crummer Inv. Co. · Rhea v. Hackney · Woodmen of the World v. Alford
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not think the contention can be maintained in a cross-bill filed in respect to the pending petition, nor any of the matters there sought to be adjudicated. There are two good reasons why this is so. The first is that a cross-bill must set up matter germane to the original bill. Lowery v. Rosengrant, 216 Ala. 364 , 113 So. 237 ; Ashe-Carson v. Bonifay, 147 Ala. 376 , 41 So. 816 ; Howell v. Randle, 171 Ala. 451, 459 , 54 So. 563 . That means that its object and purpose must be defensive and seek to defeat a recovery in whole or in part, or to modify a recovery. Maryland Casualty Co. v. Holmes, 230 Ala. 332 , 160 So. 768 ; Emens v. Stephens, 233 Ala. 295 , 172 So. 95 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Arrington
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.