Rinaldi v. Yeager’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
207 federal appellate · 111 district · 633 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,316 later decisions (99 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably North Carolina v. Pearce (1969), Bell v. Wolfish (1979)
207 federal appellate · 111 district · 633 state decisions — followed in 44 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Douglas v. People of State of California · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia
Cited together with Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Shapiro v. Thompson · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia
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 1,316 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“some relevance to the purpose for which the classification is made.”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be kept free of unreasoned distinctions that can only impede open and equal access to the courts.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is no defensible interest served by focusing on that distinction as a classifying feature in a reimbursement statute, since it bears no relationship whatever to the purpose of the repayment provision.” 384 U.S. 305, 309 , 16 L. Ed. 2d 577, 580 , 86 S. Ct. 1497,1500 .”
8 later decisions 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.