Randall v. Ridgley’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 1977
1 federal appellate · 20 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 Oakes v. H. Weil Baking Co. · Massett v. Keff · Miller v. Meche · Bankston v. Forks · 28 La. Ann. 710 - Vernon v. Bankston
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We realize that the position of a proprietor of an establishment such as Ridgley conducted, in dealing with obstreperous patrons surcharged with liquor, is a difficult one, and not free of danger to life or limb, when the passions of angry and intoxicated men are inflamed by a sense of injury. But such unhappy incidents are inherent in that character of business and must be anticipated by the proprietors of such establishments. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“one who is himself in fault cannot recover damages for a wrong resulting from such fault, although the party inflicting the injury was not justified under the law. Vernon v. Bankston, 28 La.Ann. 710 ; Johns v. Brinker, 30 La.Ann. 241 ; Bankston v. Folks, 38 La.Ann. 267 ; Miller v. Meche, 111 La. 143 , 35 So. 491 ; Massett v. Keff, 116 La. 1107 , 41 So. 330”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wade v. Gennaro“a person defending himself from an attack becomes liable as an aggressor where the force employed is in excess of that which the law will tolerate in a given case for defensive purposes, and for the use of such excessive force he is liable both civilly and criminally”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wade v. Gennaro
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.