Riggs v. Johnson County’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 166 · 1867
Citation profile
108 federal appellate · 38 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 377 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2019 · most notably Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York (1978), McClellan v. Carland (1910)
108 federal appellate · 38 district · 70 state decisions — followed in 23 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 McIntire v. Wood · Diggs v. Wolcott · Livingston Gilchrist v. The Maryland Insurance Company · Coy v. City Council of Lyons City
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 377 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]rocess subsequent to judgment is as essential to jurisdiction as process antecedent to judgment, else the judicial power would be incomplete and entirely inadequate for the purposes for which it was conferred by the Constitution.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he jurisdiction of a Court is not exhausted by the rendition of its judgment, but continues until that judgment shall be satisfied.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Peacock v. Thomas · Ross v. Miller““State courts are exempt from all interference by the federal tribunals, but they are destitute of all power to restrain either the process or proceedings in the national courts. Circuit Courts and state courts act separably and independently of each other, and in their respective spheres of action the process issued by the one is as far beyond the reach of the other as if the line of division between them ‘was traced by landmarks and monuments visible to the eye.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moran v. Sturges · Rodgers v. Pitt
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.