Rice v. Schmid’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Lineman v. Schmid (1948), 23 Cal. 4th 754 - Snukal v. Flightways Manufacturing, Inc. (2000)
37 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 Cowdery v. London Etc. Bank · Rice v. Schmid · English v. Olympic Auditorium, Inc. · Weaver v. City & County of San Francisco
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a reviewing court reverses a judgment with directions ... the trial court is bound by the directions given and has no authority to retry any other issue or to make any other findings. Its authority is limited wholly and solely to following the directions of the reviewing court.”
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.