Ex Parte Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2000
9 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 Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Mellinger v. City of Houston (Tex. 1-18-1887) · Ex Parte Alegria · Turbeville v. Gowdy · Bender v. Crawford
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidences an intention to place a further restriction on the power of the legislature; and it must be held to protect every right [emphasis added] ... which may accrue under existing laws prior to the passage of any, which, if permitted a retroactive effect, would take away that right. A right has been well defined to be a well-founded claim, and a wellfounded claim means nothing more nor less than a claim recognized and secured by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grimes v. State“Under Article I, § 16 there is also a ban on any”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grimes v. State
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.