Rice v. Mahaffey’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1975
4 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The court is, therefore, now competent to administer equitable and legal relief in a single action, and in every action in every manner, and more than formerly the two courts could do when acting separately and sometimes in antagonism. The defendant is, therefore, bound to plead his defenses, legal and equitable, in the action brought, and is estopped from instituting a separate proceeding in the same cause with the same party.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bell v. Mackey
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.