505 So. 2d 598 - Rigby v. Liles’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2019
18 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 Reed v. Fain · 60 So. 2d 158 - Tuggle v. Maddox · 435 So. 2d 944 - Adams v. Knabb Turpentine Co., Inc. · 438 So. 2d 456 - Holland v. Hattaway · 74 So. 2d 876 - HKL Realty Corporation v. Kirtley
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in extraordinary circumstances where the facts constituting the defense affirmatively appear on the face of the complaint and establish conclusively that the statute of limitations bars the action as a matter of law.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“After 20 years from the recording of a deed or the probate of a will purporting to convey real property, no person shall assert any claim to the property against the claimants under the deed or will or their successors in title.”
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.