Ricketts v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 1982 · most notably Diamond Block Coal Co. v. Cuthbertson (1906), Sievers v. Peters Box & Lumber Co. (1898)
25 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 Goodwin v. State · Union Mutual Life Insurance v. Buchanan · Worley v. Moore · Crowder v. Reed · Ferguson v. Hosier
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled law that a court is not bound to remodel an instruction, by remedying its defects or removing its infirmities; unless the party is entitled to have it given in terms as prayed, the court may properly refuse it. Goodwin v. State, 96 Ind. 550 , and authorities cited, p. 566.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cua v. Ramos
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.