John v. Richter’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2017
21 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 Derton v. Boyd · McCreary v. Rhodes & Silk · Hill v. Young
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although it is the duty of the officers to whom the writ is directed to prepare their return, and although they may be compelled summarily to make a return, yet it is incumbent upon the prosecutor of the writ, rather than the adverse party to him, to see that the return is made and to invoke the aid of the court to compel the compliance with the mandate of the writ.” St. John v. Richter et al., 167 Ala. 660 , 52 South. 465, 466 , and authorities there cited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.