Rankin v. Schofield’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Rankin v. Schofield (1905), Davis v. Office of Child Support Enforcement (1995)
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Bank of United States v. Ritchie · McCloy & Trotter v. Arnett · Moore v. Woodall · Pinchback v. Graves · Guardian v. Davies
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 2. The parties to all judgments, orders or decrees rendered within two years prior to the passage of this act shall have one year from the time it shall take effect within which to pray án apeal or sue out a writ of error. The time for taking an appeal or suing out a writ of error on .all judgments, final orders and decrees rendered more than two years prior to the passage of this act shall be three years from the date of the judgment, order or decree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stephens v. Williams
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.