Riggs v. Riggs’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1984
22 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 McCormick v. McCormick · Alvey v. Hartwig · Husband v. Husband · Miles v. Miles · Finch v. Finch
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court did not have in mind the case of a father who absconds from the jurisdiction of the divorce court and so precludes the burdened mother from resorting to it for relief. The obligation of the father being personal, it must be enforced where he can be found or property belonging to him can be appropriated. But since the obligation does exist, and exists in favor of the mother, the law is not so impotent as to leave her remediless.” (p. 597.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rogers v. Rogers““The case was well decided on these grounds.” (1. c. 599.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.