Rice v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
336 U.S. 674 · 1949
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 9 district · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 190 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013 · most notably May v. Anderson (1953), Johnson v. Muelberger (1951)
28 federal appellate · 9 district · 120 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Williams v. State of North Carolina · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Estin v. Estin · Sherrer v. Sherrer · Ex Parte Barber
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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No personal service was made upon respondent, nor did she in any way participate in the Nevada proceedings. She was not, therefore, precluded in the present action from challenging the finding of the Nevada court that Herbert N. Rice was, at the time of the divorce, domiciled in that state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Turner v. Turner
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.