Richards-Conover Hardware Co. v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1963
6 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 Bird v. Perkins · Bartlett v. Tufts · Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf R. R. v. Morris · Burnett v. Trimmell · The People v. James
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Appellee argues that to be a creditor one must have a debt due him upon which an action can be maintained. That definition is too narrow. * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“He who has a right to require the fulfillment of an obligation or contract.”
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.