Rickenberg v. Capitol Garage’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1983
7 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 Cook v. Packard Motor Car Co. · Good v. Board of Police Commissioners · Consolidated National Bank v. Cunningham · Fishback v. Foster · Simpson v. . St. John
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Let it be remembered that costs are the mere creature of statute and are always merely an incident of a lawful proceeding”.”
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.