Richards v. Abts’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 2004
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ashton v. Blue River Power Co. · Moise v. Fruit Dispatch Co. · Hoff v. Edgar · Richards v. Abts
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he proof is lacking that the deceased deliberately, and of his own wilful negligence, failed to take any precaution which he had been taught ... by his employer, or learned from his own experience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Guico v. Excel Corp.
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.