Rigby v. Gaines’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 1948
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hill v. Kimball · Old v. Clark · Wettermark v. Campbell · Brooks v. Hornbeck · Jacobson v. Berwick
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.
““A suit based upon a crime, offense, or trespass may be brought in the county where such crime, offense, or trespass was committed, or in the county where the defendant has his domicile.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grimes v. McCrary
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.