Commonwealth v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 1943
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Newport v. Newport Light 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * It would be a novel doctrine, indeed, for this court to hold that it had the power to declare an act to be in contempt of court which the court, itself, after a full hearing, determined not to be contempt. ’ ’”
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.