Riley v. Burroughs’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1916
5 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are satisfied that the rule which allows the law of the state wherein the land is situated to prevail, and the covenant to be construed in reference to whether it runs with the land, to be determined by such law, is consonant to or with the soundest and best reasoning, and hence we will adopt it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newsom v. Langford
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.