Rice v. Clark County’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 1986 · most notably Ayala v. Philadelphia Board of Public Education (1973), Evans v. Board of County Commissioners (1971)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 17 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 55 Cal. 2d 211 - Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District · 18 Ill. 2d 11 - Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302 · Holytz v. City of Milwaukee · Stone v. Arizona Highway Commission · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Hanke
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold merely that sovereign immunity does not extend to counties so as to relieve them for their negligent operation of roads.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.