State v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Texas Workers' Compensation Commission v. Garcia (1995), Brazos River Authority v. City of Graham (1961)
3 federal appellate · 116 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
Applies 19 U.S.C. § 1618 (Tariff Act of 1930)
Relies on J. W. Goldsmith, Jr.-Grant Co. v. United States · Van Oster v. State of Kansas · Lombardo v. City of Dallas · Spann v. City of Dallas · Houston & Texas Central Railroad v. City of Dallas
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A large discretion is necessarily vested in the Legislature to determine not only what the interests of the public require, but what measures are necessary for the protection of such interests. If there is room for a fair difference of opinion as to the necessity and reasonableness of a legislative enactment on a subject which lies within the domain of the police power, the courts will not hold it void.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is essential that the (police) power be used for the purpose of accomplishing, and in a manner appropriate to the accomplishment of, the purposes for which it exists.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Police regulations are not unconstitutional merely because they operate as a restraint upon private rights of person or property or will result in loss to individuals. Damage to or loss of property resulting from a proper exercise of such power does not constitute a taking of property under the right of eminent domain, and compensation is not required to be made therefor." Citing Houston & T. C. Ry. Co. v. City of Dallas, 98 Tex. 396 , 84 S.W. 648 , 70 L.R.A. 850 ; and, Lombardo v. City of Dallas, 124 Tex. 1 , 73 S.W.2d 475 .”
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.