Richardson v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1981
8 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 DeFord v. National Life & Accident Ins. · Smithart v. John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. · Home Beneficial Ass'n v. White · McKay v. Louisville & Northern Railroad · Dark Tobacco Growers' Co-op. Ass'n v. Mason
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.
““the rule is absolute, that in the absence of fraud or sharp dealing, one is estopped to repudiate his contract, or avoid the effect of the execution of a contract, when by negligence or indifference, he has failed to read it, or to have it read to him. In the absence of fraud or deceit, the rule is the same for those who can and those who cannot read, and the basis of the rule is one of estoppel, the test being negligence and indifference, and not illiteracy or incapacity.” Id. 246 S.W.2d at 574 .”
2 later decisions 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.