Ritchey v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 1981 · most notably 25 Cal. 3d 283 - People v. Brigham (1979), 221 Cal. App. 2d 410 - Larson v. Solbakken (1963)
7 federal appellate · 39 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 64 Cal. App. 474 - Grillich v. Weinshenk · Davies v. Barnes · 54 Cal. App. 31 - Traynor v. McGilvray
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nor is there any merit in the claim that the trial court committed error in admitting evidence of the speed of the bus in approaching the scene of the accident when a few hundred feet away therefrom. The question as to whether or not this evidence was objectionable as being too remote was a matter of discretion of the trial court. No hard and fast rule can be laid down upon this subject.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Larson
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.