Richardson v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
102 F.2d 697 · 1939
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2020
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Johnson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Marshall v. Commissioner · Bardach v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Smith v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Silverman v. Bermuda & West Indies S. S. Co.
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.
“* * * Further, “* * * with few exceptions the law attaches legal consequences to what parties do, quite independently of their private purpose or intent.” Richardson v. Smith, 2 Cir., 102 F. 2d 697, 699 , 125 A. L. R. 774. * * *”
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.