Rice v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2011
6 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 State v. Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District · Cape Motor Lodge, Inc. v. City of Cape Girardeau · Baum v. City of St. Louis · State Ex Rel. Jardon v. Industrial Development Authority · State Ex Rel. Wagner v. St. Louis County Port Authority
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny benefits to private persons... are incidental and do not take away from the primary purpose of legislationโto increase convention and sports activity in the St. Louis City-County area”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clean 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.