Richardson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Seltzer v. Morton (2007), Faulconbridge v. State (2006)
72 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 Hickman v. Taylor · United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Schuff v. A.T. Klemens & Son · G-K Properties and Genesco, Inc. v. Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Jose and the City of San Jose · McKenzie v. Scheeler
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of discovery is to promote the ascertainment of truth and the ultimate disposition of the lawsuit in accordance therewith. Discovery fulfills this purpose by assuring the mutual knowledge of all relevant facts gathered by both parties which are essential to proper litigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[l]itigants who are willful in halting the discovery process act in opposition to the authority of the court and cause impermissible prejudice to their opponents,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“liberally construed to make all relevant facts available to parties in advance of trial and to reduce the possibilities of surprise and unfair advantage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox. v. Magers
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.