Rieddle v. Buckner’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2018
15 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 172 Ind. App. 434 - Brown v. Heidersbach · Echterling Et Ux. v. Kalvaitis Et Ux. · 179 Ind. App. 592 - Kline v. Kramer · Dusenberry v. Dusenberry · Indiana Insurance v. Plummer Power Mower & Tool Rental, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only the reasonable attorney's fees and expenses the grantee expended in defending title are recoverable from the covenantor for breach of warranty of title.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To the contrary, it is the duty of the courts to interpret a statute as they find it, without reference to whether its provisions are wise or unwise, necessary or unnecessary, appropriate or inappropriate, or well or ill conceived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“we are not free to construe a statute which is unambiguous, and our ability to effect perceived legislative purposes is necessarily limited to the language of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.